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Re:Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over J... by AndrewBissell on Saturday September 07, 2019 @08:16PM (#20907627)
This thread is amazing. Epstein could have confessed to personally trafficking children from the former Yugoslavia (an actual thing that Blackwater was involved in, btw), and if he showed up 5 years later with a couple of barely legal Eastern Europeans in tow, there'd be commenters ready to insist you never can tell for sure!
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Re:Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over J... by jacquesm on Sunday September 08, 2019 @02:36AM (#20908963)
The amazing thing to me is and yet at the time nobody actually did anything. That is why he got away with it for so long, he could repeat the same thing that already got him convicted once with such impunity because everybody was willing to look away when confronted with the specifics.

Each and every one of those people underneath Ito who suspected something might be up had the opportunity to do something about it, including going to the board, and given their suspicions they should have. And yet, nobody did.

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Re:Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over J... by bigmit37 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @08:47PM (#20907774)
My thoughts exactly. My jawing is dropping at the lengths people are going to defend this situation.
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Re:Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over J... by googlryas on Saturday September 07, 2019 @11:03PM (#20908351)
What do you think the motivations are behind someone defending a dead pedophile?
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Re:Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over J... by selimthegrim on Saturday September 07, 2019 @10:10PM (#20908150)
His associate who was convicted was indeed from former Yugoslavia
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