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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?

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QHC@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Is it only possible to fire a toxic asshole because he committed crimes?

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- famousblueben@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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- flossdaily@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Of course not… But what evidence do we have that he was a toxic asshole?
  
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  - SilentStorms@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    All those text message logs of inappropriate conversations with underage girls
    
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    flossdaily@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I just googled them.
    
    Yup. He had to go.
    
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  - AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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    flossdaily@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah,I just googled the text messages mentioned above. Definitely super creepy and predatory.
    
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- corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  fire a toxic asshole
  
  Dr House?
  
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Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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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Davel23@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

core tenant

"Tenet".

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- bane_killgrind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Savage
  
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Spacebar@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Could it have been an excuse to oust him?

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Sethayy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Insane how people still think the American judicial system is still functioning for more than just those with money

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