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I heard he raped or sexually assaulted someone. Someone wrote "a rapist lives here" outside his window. If he did rape someone, no due process means we're trea
by zaccus 10y ago
I heard he raped or sexually assaulted someone. Someone wrote "a rapist lives here" outside his window.
If he did rape someone, no due process means we're treating rape as a mere HR issue, and he's free to go rape more people.
If he did not rape someone, then at least some of the allegations being thrown around are false. No due process means that someone unconnected with this may reasonably assume all of it is false.
- jessaustin 10y agoWhy would anyone at Tor Project care what "someone unconnected with this may reasonably assume"? Impune rapists are not their responsibility; your complaints would be better addressed to police and prosecutors. If, against all odds, Appelbaum isn't actually an actual rapist, he is certainly still an asshole, and there's nothing wrong with giving assholes the boot.
- zaccus 10y agoI have no idea why they would care what someone unconnected would think. But the way this has been publicised sure makes it seem like they care, so here we are discussing it. What do you mean "against all odds"? Unless you're connected with this personally, all you have to go on is their internal investigation, which did not mention rape. So apparently no one is even claiming that anymore. Again, they can either turn this over to the police, or I'm going to assume it's all made up and I'm not going to care. Not that my opinion is worth any more than yours, which is to say it doesn't matter at all.
- jimrandomh 10y agoThe Tor project blog post notes that they "hired a professional investigator". This is significant because PIs are a licensed profession with the training and trust required to bring evidence of criminal activity before a court of law. That would be a separate process from the HR investigation, and would almost certainly not be discussed publicly while it was still in progress.