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> Ronan Farrow has Joi Ito inviting Epstein to the Media Lab, in person, and Epstein arriving with two escorts in tow so young that Lab staff had to debate amon

by darawk 7y ago

> Ronan Farrow has Joi Ito inviting Epstein to the Media Lab, in person, and Epstein arriving with two escorts in tow so young that Lab staff had to debate among themselves whether to interview to rescue them from Epstein. AFAIK there was no reason cited for their trafficking suspicion. It is not known whether the women with him at the time appeared to anyone to be underage.

fatbird 7y ago
Epstein at the time was known to be convicted of sex trafficking in 2008. That alone is sufficient reason to suspect that a couple young escorts are part of a continuing crime, but Zuckerman said that people generally believed that Epstein continued to be a sex trafficker.
tptacek 7y ago
You made this point on a previous thread, at length, in repeated back-and-forth with other commenters. I also doubt the escorts were "trafficked" in the lurid sense we generally mean by the word, or that they needed or would have been receptive to a rescue. That is not at all the point I'm making, and you know that. Your rebuttal is even less relevant to this thread, which simply contends that there was no meaningful anonymity about Epstein's donations; in fact, there was infamy over them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20906541 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20906541
- pvg 7y ago
  You're going to be polite about it but hell, let's violate the guidelines here. Everything this person has posted on HN about this is disgusting.
- darawk 7y ago
  > You made this point on a previous thread, at length, in repeated back-and-forth with other commenters. I also doubt the escorts were "trafficked" in the lurid sense we generally mean by the word, or that they needed or would have been receptive to a rescue. That is not at all the point I'm making, and you know that. You were absolutely making that point. You literally said: > Ronan Farrow has Joi Ito inviting Epstein to the Media Lab, in person, and Epstein arriving with two escorts in tow so young that Lab staff had to debate among themselves whether to interview to rescue them from Epstein. I don't know how much more clear your intent could be.

by darawk 7y ago

fatbird 7y ago

Epstein at the time was known to be convicted of sex trafficking in 2008. That alone is sufficient reason to suspect that a couple young escorts are part of a continuing crime, but Zuckerman said that people generally believed that Epstein continued to be a sex trafficker.

tptacek 7y ago

You made this point on a previous thread, at length, in repeated back-and-forth with other commenters. I also doubt the escorts were "trafficked" in the lurid sense we generally mean by the word, or that they needed or would have been receptive to a rescue. That is not at all the point I'm making, and you know that. Your rebuttal is even less relevant to this thread, which simply contends that there was no meaningful anonymity about Epstein's donations; in fact, there was infamy over them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20906541 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20906541

pvg 7y ago
You're going to be polite about it but hell, let's violate the guidelines here. Everything this person has posted on HN about this is disgusting.
darawk 7y ago
> You made this point on a previous thread, at length, in repeated back-and-forth with other commenters. I also doubt the escorts were "trafficked" in the lurid sense we generally mean by the word, or that they needed or would have been receptive to a rescue. That is not at all the point I'm making, and you know that. You were absolutely making that point. You literally said: > Ronan Farrow has Joi Ito inviting Epstein to the Media Lab, in person, and Epstein arriving with two escorts in tow so young that Lab staff had to debate among themselves whether to interview to rescue them from Epstein. I don't know how much more clear your intent could be.