One of the commenters on the site did point out that it’s a defamation lawsuit waiting to happen.
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chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We need to be careful in how we view the latest batch from the files. They contain lots of names of people who were not involved in the least. Bilbo Baggins and Punxsutawney Phil are in there. Lots of celebrities are in there simply because they’re referenced in an email, while they had no contact with Epstein knowledge of what was happening.
And if we’re too aggressive in how we react to people’s names popping up in searches, it gives cover to those who were complicit.
tonytins@pawb.social 1 day ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Defamation requires the claim to be both a lie, and made publicly. The tool needs to be run locally, and specifically tells you that it’s searching by name and that others with the same name will be found in the results, and that’s why it gives the context and lists where in the files it came up.
So the tool itself isn’t defamatory, but anyone that uses is better be damn sure that they have the correct person if they start publicly talking or writing about what it finds.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The bash 3.1-beta1 reference manual is in the Epstein files.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Also, every single name that gets released is a name that Trump was ok with releasing. From my pov, it just turns it into a more effective blackmail tool. He’s not afraid of what’s in the files. If it was going to ruin him, it would have already done so.
Instead it just shows others who know they are in the files that a) he’s one of them (if they didn’t already know), b) that he can protect them, c) he isn’t protecting everyone in the files just because of point a.
Hate to be realizing this, but I think everyone who thought the release of the Epstein files would help anything got played. Just like everyone who thought the Mueller investigation would threaten his first term or result in making a second term impossible.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
The release of the Epstein files wasn’t about Trump. It was about getting closure for the victims.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
From a distance, it’s very hard to tell if it’s two consenting hobbits or if one is a child. It’s easy for them to find themselves on the list, poor Bilbo.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And how old even in a child hobbit? 60?
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I believe they reach adulthood in their mid to late thirties. Merry and Pippin are technically in the equivalent of their late teens when they head off with Frodo in FotR
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
Not Punxsatawney Phil! Aside from his short rivalry with Murray over the starring role in Groundhog Day, he's a good guy!
biofaust@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Slavov Zizek is named… In the How To Academy newsletter Epstein has subscribed to.
And yet I checked Slovenian media and they are writing that he “is in the files”.
What a disgrace.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Yeah it’s clearly one thing to be a public persona and someone mentions your name in an email, and another thing altogether to be an Epstein correspondent. That line is being shamelessly blurred by some media