Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.

BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Worse, Snowden did leak an absurd amount of gov details and documents and info and it did nothing to stop what’s happening. People barely acknowledged it.

  Maybe someone would martyr themselves. But doing it for nothing? Not appealing.

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  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It did actually have some effect, though. The GDPR and countries reducing their dependence on the USA’s intelligence services are part of it.

    I’m also reminded of the Panama Papers, which did make some bankers in Iceland step down.

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    • Akrenion@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And yet governments are trying to buy palantir access. There should be more opposition.

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      • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exactly. Palantir is American terrorism and infiltration.

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      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, the government’s big shift from “spy on our citizens” to “create a private corporation and pay them to spy on our citizens” was largely driven by public scrutiny. Governments realized that people were watching what they did online. And rather than stop encroaching on peoples’ privacy, the various governments simply shifted towards hiring private contractors to do it for them.

        A giant “Spy Agency To Definitely Spy On All Of Our Own Citizens: Fifty Bajillion Dollars” line item on the government budget looks bad when lawmakers go to vote on it. But that same fifty bajillion dollars allocated to “Private Government Contractor 19452046” looks a lot better on paper.

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    • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uh… No the bankers got all pardoned and all agencies pardoned nothing was changed

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  • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dude, it changed a ton. Facebook was http only back then. Huuuuuge roll-out of encryption followed the Snowdon leaks.

    It lead to massive increases in secured public infrastructure.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, the Snowden leaks didn’t change a ton for the end users… But it was a big kick in the pants for the site admins, programmers, database admins, etc who build all of the internet’s infrastructure.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Epstein was allowed to kill himself. Someone whispered in his ear that he should do the right thing, hint, hint, or face monstrous consequences.

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  • frizzo@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The monstrous consequences more than death? This is a bad take. Zero people have been arrested and charged with soliciting the humans he sex trafficked. Maxzine gizzwelle is in a Texas prison with special privileges , he is rich and connected he would have been innocent or pardoned eventually.

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    • thatonecoder@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, there is worse than death.

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      • frizzo@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Go on tell me one.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is one of the dumber conspiracy theories I’ve ever heard

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  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You mean the consequences that all his rapist friends faced? Oh… Wait.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    having actually read more of these files as they’re released…i’m kind of in this camp now, epstein didnt think he was some monster…he just “like em young”, they were (supposed) to have atleast had their period.

    even a monster like epstein was disgusted with trump being an actual pedo

    which reminds me of a joke that goes something like there’s 4-5 different types of pedophilia, but only pyschiatrists and pedophiles know the difference

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• toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like your username. It paints a picture.

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