Weren’t all charges against him dropped?
Yes, but there was also a ton of leaked texts of him speaking inappropriately with underage girls and it also surfaced past instances of him defending pedophilia on podcasts.
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flossdaily@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Weren’t all charges against him dropped?
I’m all for rooting out the predators I’m our society, but what are we doing when we take a franchise away from it’s creator based on accusations that don’t even have enough weight to warrant a trial?
A core tenant of our justice system is “innocent until proven guilty”. Was there even an internal company investigation that justifies punishing him?
Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Davel23@kbin.social 11 months ago
core tenant
"Tenet".
bane_killgrind@kbin.social 11 months ago
Savage
Spacebar@lemmy.world [bot] 11 months ago
Could it have been an excuse to oust him?
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Insane how people still think the American judicial system is still functioning for more than just those with money
QHC@kbin.social 11 months ago
Is it only possible to fire a toxic asshole because he committed crimes?
famousblueben@lemmy.film 11 months ago
This exactly. Just because the charges dismissed against somebody doesn’t mean the internal investigations didn’t make it clear they’d be better off without his influence, and it also doesn’t mean the person is innocent of being deeply toxic and likely to run into issues again, it just means a prosecutor wasn’t willing to risk anything other than a clear win as so often happens with these types of cases.
flossdaily@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Of course not… But what evidence do we have that he was a toxic asshole?
SilentStorms@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
All those text message logs of inappropriate conversations with underage girls
flossdaily@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just googled them.
Yup. He had to go.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
That’s what I was wondering. I wonder if there’s any actual evidence of anything occurring, or if it’s more of a case that it would be dramatically cheaper to replace him.
flossdaily@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah,I just googled the text messages mentioned above. Definitely super creepy and predatory.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Dr House?