Because it’s pretty much all public knowledge. There’s nothing novel there. It’s very obviously a distraction and obfuscation tactic. It’s a tactic commonly used as a defense strategy by corporate attorneys, especially when defending against private parties: you simply inundate the opposing side with reams of borderline irrelevant bullshit. Makes it substantially harder to find pertinent documents, and also serves to delay the discovery that maybe something important was left out.
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frankenswine@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
what’s mildly infuriating about that?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
frunch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is the kind of shit i would love to see AI destroy but it seems more likely we’re only going to get the shitty parts of AI instead
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
There’s a super easy way to solve this. Especially for corporations.
“The company’s operations will be suspended during the suit, until such time as the court can determine whether the company is operating illegally.”
You want to flood the zone with shit to draw out your court case for 18 months until everyone loses interest? You can still do that. But you won’t be making any money while you do, and I expect your employees still need paychecks if you want them to still be there when this wraps up.
This isn’t a silver bullet for every sort of court case, but I think this is a very sensible and obvious solution to corporate crimes.
addie@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Open to abuse, unfortunately. If even the most trivial of cases takes a week to resolve, then you could shut any company down by filling fifty suits.
The real solution would be for the judge to actually do their job and to penalise companies for doing that kind of bullshit.
realitista@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
There are more than 300 gigabytes of Epstein files confirmed by the DOJ. If we are generous and say all these 30,000 pages are stored as images rather than text, they probably aren't more than 25gb. And 97% of them were already public.
frankenswine@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
i guess it’s a great time for a new whistleblower
realitista@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
They are doing it because it was looking like they would get the signatures in congress to force the release of the full archives, they are trying to take the wind out of the sails out of that movement. The best whistleblower would be congress itself.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
JFC…300GB of text? How big was that island? Was it Australia?
realitista@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
It's not all text. But I think most of it is scanned docs based on what's been released so far.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It’s the same fucking files from a few weeks ago.
Release the list with Trump’s name!
frunch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wait, are you telling me the list doesn’t have Trump’s name on it?!? Does that mean he has absolutely zero ties to Jeff Epstein and most likely never met him and if he did he probably wouldn’t remember because he met so many people that night?!?
naught@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
exactly! total exoneration!!! now let’s please focus on real issues like the 17 trans college athletes running or swimming or hitting balls with their wicked appendages
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Nothing people didn’t already know, but my god it has been an effective distraction when people bring them up in response to Trump doing literal Dictator shit.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
and all pee pee videos. Including Elon tripping on the oval office sofa.