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[–] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And it appears the incriminating stuff is all redacted anyway. There is nothing reported yet about actual rapes of underage girls even though that's what this was all about. Using protecting the girls' identities and active investigatioins as an excuse they just cut the entire evidence of the rapes out of the material it appears.

So the media has an easy out, just reporting on who talked to epstein, who went to a party, and nothing of the details of these rapes, even as those details wouldn't identify anyone to any person that doesn't already know about it.

We need an independent monitor to decide what to release or not. If only we could leak the files, news organizations could decide what to redact, I would trust a number of them keeping each other honest far more than the government.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Bill Gates asking Epstein for antibiotics he can slip to his wife without her knowing because he got STDs while on the island should really be a bigger story, even from a popculture gossip standpoint.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I totally forgot about about that, what was it syphilis? Probably had something to do with his divorce I imagine. Giving your wife underage human trafficking syphilis Seems like a real last straw.

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

syphilis

Don't know, but just adding that gonorrhea is also a bacterial STI which can be cured with antibiotics.