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Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by decimalenough on Thursday February 05, 2026 @10:51PM (#46908875)
Malaria deaths have fallen by 60% in the last 15 years, saving on the order of 12 million lives. Bill's foundation has donated around $4B to the cause.

And yeah, it's got Melinda's name on it, but let's face it, virtually all the money is from Bill/Microsoft.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:14AM (#46909390)
You should know better than to be defending evil people.

Bill & Melinda Gates' Foundation's evil illegal "vaccine trials" on tribal children (especially girls) in India (without the consent of them and their parents) directly caused the deaths of several children, hospitalizations of scores of of such victims, and it was a huge conspiracy and controversy that was uncovered during investigations by Supreme Court and police.

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/heal...

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by SanjayMehta on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:55AM (#46909597)
Not surprised to see this getting faded into obscurity.

Hypocrisy News.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:18AM (#46910365)
The truths can be suppressed for a while, but they are bound to come out.

Karma will have its way, and its say.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by mrg3_2013 on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:01AM (#46909630)
Interesting to see how this is getting downvoted. Somewhat expected. Many more head would roll from this scandal. Bill Gates, Peter Thiel are just starters
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:10AM (#46909671)
Yeah, I am surprised that when I am stating known facts with relevant links, my comments are getting downvoted.

It is as if Gates's team are lurking here in HN, to immediately downvote any comments that reveal the truths about him. Hmmm.

No wonder his wife divorced him. She should have done it long ago.

But she too (as part of their Foundation) is culpable for the deaths of those tribal children given those illegal vaccines.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by gscott on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:51AM (#46909902)
People seem to forget how many companies Bill Gates put out of business by using their designs. It takes years to sue and win damages minus lawyer fees. Then to try to whitewash his reputation by giving the money away.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:27AM (#46911600)
If Bill Gates was merely using his vast wealth to whitewash his image, after a career as a ruthless businessman, that's understandable (though not agreeable) because that's what billionaires (who became so, by being ruthless and competitive) tend to do.

But Bill Gates has been using his vast wealth as a weapon and Think Tank for Big Pharma - he is actively using his wealth and clout (under guise of charity) to harm and kill poor people and innocent children (by doing experiments on them with unproven/dubious drugs as "clinical trials") without their consent.

Now that is pure evil.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by jltsiren on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:38AM (#46913359)
I think it's the opposite. People remember how Bill Gates got rich. They remember that the damage he caused mostly affected capitalists and professionals in developed countries. His businesses mostly didn't abuse labor in developing countries. He didn't cause that much environmental damage. He didn't undermine democracy and the society that much.

People remember that Bill Gates played the game and won, and the damage he caused was mostly limited to the economic sphere and to other people playing the same game. That's why they are willing to give Gates a chance to redeem himself by using his money for good.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:42PM (#46917862)
>I think it's the opposite. People remember how Bill Gates got rich. That rags-to-riches myth about Bill Gates is not true.

He was a Harvard dropout, but not some poor kid.

Bill Gates was always rich. But with Micro$oft's success, he became a lot lot richer later.

His mom sat on some major committee at IBM. She had significant clout there.

That's how Bill even got the chance to pitch a new OS when the IBM big bosses were looking to unleash their new PCs.

Do you really think they just yanked a school dropout from the streets into their boardroom to decide important business future for their company?

Paul Allen had started Microsoft with Bill Gates. It was Bill's mom who pitched Microsoft as a potential partner to IBM's CEO John Opel.

Bill Gates scouted and found a chap (Tim Paterson) having a working prototype called 86-DOS. And Bill purchased it (with his family money), rebranded it as PC-DOS and sold it to IBM (but he cunningly kept the copyright as he rightly figured that other manufacturers would clone the IBM PC hardware and would need a DOS for their PCs (thus, he later licensed the new OS to non-IBM PCs as MS-DOS)). I daresay his mom was instrumental in such cunning dealmaking.

>That's why they are willing to give Gates a chance to redeem himself by using his money for good. The problem is that he is using his wealth for some shady stuff, so it is not good.

Bill Gates's name is mentioned in the Epstein files, for some unsavory links to that child molestor.

And his BGMF (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) got banned in India from funding local NGOs, because a Parliamentary committee indicted BGMF's involvement and funding for shady and shoddy vaccine trials on tens of thousands of poor Indian tribal children without informed consent and under false aegis.

Be careful whom you consider your heroes. They may not be all they seem to be.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by owebmaster on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:17AM (#46911101)
> Yeah, I am surprised that when I am stating known facts with relevant links, my comments are getting downvoted.

Think about it as a noble way to spend your HN karma

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:11AM (#46911474)
I didn't even know that HN has karma! I thought that was a Reddit thing.

I have been using HN for some time, but I don't really know how it works.

People seem to be downvoting my comments that reveal some hard truths, but I don't see any downvote button when browsing HN conversations.

Anyway, I don't intend to downvote anyone. Let people have their own opinions and say, but is there anyway I can find out who is deliberately downvoting my comments?

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by direwolf20 on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:23AM (#46911149)
If only it was just karma. A pattern of getting downvoted can lead to account restrictions.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:21AM (#46911552)
Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I thank you for the heads up, my friend.

But I feel that if my account gets restricted or suspended on HN because of downvotes on my comments that merely state some hard truths, then so be it.

It would be a judgement on HN, not on me.

I will simply go elsewhere to speak up the truths..

Someone has to speak for those innocents whose voices have forever been silenced by evil people.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by SanjayMehta on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:23AM (#46911560)
"You're posting too fast" means you're telling the truth.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:33AM (#46911638)
The links and news I have shared can be easily verified.

The truths are there for those who wish to see.

I type fast though, LOL. Bad habit from my early days as a programmer and blog writer. ;-)

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by SanjayMehta on Friday February 06, 2026 @07:04PM (#46919879)
I was referring to Hypocrisy News' response to getting a bunch of downvotes in quick succession.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by AlexeyBelov on Saturday February 07, 2026 @06:54AM (#46923129)
I know that it's against the guidelines to make comparisons to Reddit, but this is exactly what I frequently see there. People complaining about 4 downvotes and telling everyone how they are being silenced for being truthful in the sea of lies, or whatever else.

Very, very often this is some form of lashing out and has no basis in any reality.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by SanjayMehta on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:42AM (#46931632)
Hypocrisy News is just a politer version, with fewer bots.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by AlexeyBelov on Saturday February 07, 2026 @06:52AM (#46923120)
This doesn't pass the smell test. People are "telling the truth" every day on this platform and only a small % of users are so disruptive they have restrictions applied to their accounts.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by SanjayMehta on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:21AM (#46911551)
You'd be surprised how accurate your take is on reputation management teams operating on social media.

One time I joked about blocking a domain which would have embarrassed a notorious colour revolution organisation and the next day the domain was snatched up by the named gang.

And that particular Reddit account got banned.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:36AM (#46911666)
Reddit and Twitter are cesspools of noise and misinformation since years.

Even whole subreddits are taken over by shady admins, and totally weaponised. e.g., r/India is filled with anti-India hate posts and malicious misinformation, because that subreddit is controlled by Pakistani admins.

I was actually glad when my Reddit user account got banned for speaking some truths about history of my nation, LOL.

Lot less stress on HN, it is more peaceful, simple, and informative, I like it.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by direwolf20 on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:24AM (#46911152)
When your main complaint against someone is "illegal vaccines" and you post it several times, it makes you look very similar to COVID conspiracy theorists.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:07AM (#46911443)
When my exposé comments (with undisputable facts and valid links) are being deliberately downvoted (to cover up the shenanigans of evil men), then it will only spur me to share those truths to a wider audience.

The heart-wrenching laments of the families of healthy innocent children who died in such evil unscrupulous experiments by these evil billionaires and greedy evil Big Pharma megacorporarations, shall be heard across the world.

Karma will have its way, and its say.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by direwolf20 on Friday February 06, 2026 @08:34AM (#46912638)
HN guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by joriJordan on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:10AM (#46909672)
In this thread; exploiters of child labor engaged in empty rhetorical debate. Zero to be accomplished by it. Just chimps in emotional cages slapping the dopamine button.

I am sure the sweatshop kids work under informed consent too and were given a choice between 996 in the textile factory and education.

300 million Americans are incredibly deluded about their place in a world of 8 billion.

America operates with a monopoly on unethical labor practices.

None of you are in the streets to put each other on the hook for your own healthcare or extend the offer to your neighbors. That's how much money obsessed Americans care about their own existence; happy to roll the dice they don't get some illness and lose it all to medical debt versus ask their neighbors to get their back.

Meanwhile every other modernized country has single payer.

Cosplay rugged individuals who don't need the help, while codependent on sweatshop labor.

Such an unserious people.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:24AM (#46909745)
The American people voted for Biden and twice for Trump - both of whom have unfavorable reputations regarding the way they behave with minor girls.

Bush Sr. and Jr. openly did wars for oil, under fake excuses like "WMDs".

"Gentleman" Obama too has a dubious distinction - he's the only two-term American President who kept his country directly involved in wars throughout those tenures, including wars he himself signed off to start. Yet he shamelessly went and collected that Nobel Peace Prize.

And Trump was so miffed at not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, that he unleashed tariff wars on all allies, and then arrogantly invaded a sovereign peaceful nation (Venezuela), and he's now threatening to seize Cuba (he's already stopped all oil going to it, in order to cripple this struggling nation that CIA destabilized since decades), Greenland, Columbia, Canada and whatnot.

AFAIK, no American president has bothered to take serious efforts to prevent gun shootings in American schools and colleges. USA has maximum mass shootings and maximum school shootings compared to rest of the world, the statistics are really shocking. (The evil that happened as the Uvalde school shooting, where the shooter was protected and aided by the police themselves - such avoidable tragedies on innocent children just breaks my heart.)

It seems that healthcare and safety of children are the least of the worries of the Americans, as they keep voting for such fakers and warmongers to be their President.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by iso1631 on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:34PM (#46915720)
> now threatening to seize Cuba (he's already stopped all oil going to it, in order to cripple this struggling nation that CIA destabilized since decades), Greenland, Columbia, Canada and whatnot.

Interesting you don't mention Iran. Trump has been building up forces in the region for a few weeks and is on the verge of invading, in an exact mirror of Russia invading Ukraine.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by mft_ on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:43AM (#46910171)
I have no reason to defend BMGF and enjoy a good comeuppance probably more than the next person, but the article you linked to about the issues in India is far from the smoking gun in the hands BMGF you seem to think it is.

From the article: an already-approved vaccine (by FDA and others) was given to children via a trial run by an NGO (PATH) and was funded by BMGF. The trial was apparently run unethically, and in addition a year or so later it was found that girls administered the vaccine had possibly experienced adverse events, some very serious.

(Based on the article alone) it’s very likely that BMGF would have been totally hands off in overseeing the trial, and would certainly have had strict agreements with PATH. If there were indeed ethical breaches, I’m sure BMGF was very unhappy about this. Moreover, while we of course shouldn’t ignore the safety findings, attributing events causally to the vaccination against the standard background rate of events in a particular population is rife with uncertainty.

And of course, the trial potentially being unethically run doesn’t make the (already- and still-approved) vaccine more dangerous… but does make it easier to whip up sensation and clicks for articles, especially if there’s a big rich US Foundation also tangentially involved.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by vee-kay on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:50AM (#46910203)
Please stop whitewashing evildoers and stop excluding relevant facts on the exposés of such evils.

BMGF (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) is funding such evils across the world, this was not some isolated incident that Bill and Melinda Gates were unaware of.

Furthermore, did the Gates do repatriations to the victims of this experimental drug? Nope. Did they even apologize for funding clinical-trials-without-consent of experimental drugs that they dared not test properly in their own country? Nope.

They knew what evil they were doing, and they didn't care.

Bill and Melinda Gates are guilty of mass murders of innocent children. No wonder they were in cahoots with that evil Epstein.

And I'll expose some more of your whitewashing here.

Entire world knows the FDA is in the pockets of Big Pharma, so FDA approval means shit. FDA itself is funded by Big Pharma.

Why Is Biopharma Paying 75% Of The FDA’s Drug Division Budget? https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2022/09/22/why-is...

So explain if you dare: why are the clinical trials of unproven drugs by American megacorporations and American billionaires being done on poor illiterate tribals (or underprivileged communities) in India and Africa, rather than on American citizens first?

Don't want your children to die or be affected due to such experimental drugs, do you? Show me where clinical trials of this HPV vaccine has been done on minors in USA.

But you feel it is okay if some healthy children in some poor or developing nation die due to such unethical BioPharma experiments, especially when those experiments are done WITHOUT consent from the children and their parents?!!

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/heal...

"A standing committee on health and family welfare that investigated the irregularities pertaining to the observation studies in India tabled its report.

The committee found that consent for conducting these studies, in many cases, was taken from the hostel wardens, which was a flagrant violation of norms. In many other cases, thumbprint impressions of their poor and illiterate parents were duly affixed onto the consent form. The children also had no idea about the nature of the disease or the vaccine. The authorities concerned could not furnish requisite consent forms for the vaccinated children in a huge number of cases.

The standing committee report was a shocker but it became even more significant when it was mentioned that the study was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).

When a team of health activists - from an NGO (Sama) that specializes in women’s health - visited on a fact-finding mission, they were told that as many as 120 girls vaccinated with HPV had experienced adverse reactions such as epileptic seizures, severe stomach ache, headaches and mood swings. The Sama report also said there had been cases of early onset of menstruation following the vaccination, heavy bleeding and severe menstrual cramps among many students. The standing committee pulled up the relevant state governments for the shoddy investigation into these deaths. It said it was disturbed to find that “all the seven deaths were summarily dismissed as unrelated to vaccinations without in-depth investigations…the speculative causes were suicides, accidental drowning in well (why not suicide?), malaria, viral infections, subarachnoid hemorrhage (without autopsy) etc.”

The committee said that in the context of deaths of girls classified as suicide, the role of the “HPV vaccine as a possible, if not probable, cause of suicidal ideation cannot be ruled out.”

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by saulpw on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:23PM (#46909087)
But much of the motivation for starting a foundation is from Melinda.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by lazide on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:47PM (#46909259)
It’s almost like it was done… as a team.

Where one side provided all the money, the other side provided the direction.

Both were necessary. Weird huh?

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by spiderice on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:38PM (#46916444)
It's really easy to give away money you didn't earn lol
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by saint_fiasco on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:10PM (#46917538)
Sounds very hard actually. If you asked me to spend a significant fraction of Bill Gates' money I wouldn't even know how to begin.

How would you do it? Do you have a way to earn his trust, a service to offer him that he values a lot, a way to steal from him, or anything like that?

Melania apparently managed to do it with true love and kindness. Are you capable of sincerely loving Bill Gates for a period of several years, or fake it in a perfectly convincing way for several years?

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by pickleRick243 on Saturday February 07, 2026 @01:43AM (#46921843)
I don't think it's that hard. MacKenzie Scott Bezos managed to give away nearly half (not accounting for appreciation) of the wealth she obtained from her divorce in a few short years.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by lazide on Saturday February 07, 2026 @09:23AM (#46924140)
She got them from the divorce. She didn’t have to convince anyone to pry them loose.

Notably, she played a huge part in how Amazon was structured due to her influence on Bezos.

I do find it very interesting though the apparently common pattern here of ‘woman gives away massive fortune she got from x to make the world better/rehabilitate her image’ or something.

Meanwhile, the men all seem to go on hooker binges. See Bezos, and now Gates (vs Epstein files).

No one, including the people getting screwed at the end, are actually innocent, but some definitely are more guilty than others eh?

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by nearbuy on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:51AM (#46909578)
I think it's the opposite. Bill credited his parents for his philanthropic drive and Warren buffet as the person who first introduced him to the idea of giving everything away. He's been active and knowledgeable in his philanthropy and posts frequently about global health, poverty, aid, etc.

Melinda also, of course, did work for their joint foundation before she left. Since leaving, she shifted her philanthropic focus more to US women's health and reproductive rights.

Bill has committed to giving away nearly all his wealth (99%) over the next 19 years. Melinda is still committed to giving away over 50% of her wealth over her lifetime.

I don't see any evidence that Melinda was the primary driver for Bill's philanthropy.

Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by mrg3_2013 on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:00AM (#46909619)
meh..Just because he donated doesn't mean one should ignore or dilute the severity of alleged crimes. Infact, I would trade someone who doesn't commit any such acts and still does not donate over someone who donates but does worst of all the crimes.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by SpicyLemonZest on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:05AM (#46909654)
Bill Gates isn't alleged to have participated in Epstein's crimes. He does seem to have cheated on his wife repeatedly, which I agree is terrible behavior.
Re:The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein by spiderice on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:34PM (#46915722)
Is your stance that a shitty person can donate a tiny percent of their fortune to a good cause and it makes them a good person?

Follow up question: do you buy indulgences?