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I may get downvoted to hell for this, but why is it bad if Epstein funded a programming language for kids? It's not like he influenced the development of the la

I may get downvoted to hell for this, but why is it bad if Epstein funded a programming language for kids? It's not like he influenced the development of the language.

toss1 7y ago
It's bad because you're effectively laundering Illegally-gotten money and legitimizing a criminal. It's exactly this attitude that serious criminals count upon to both enjoy their gains and improve their immunity. (see also RUS oligarchs & other kleptocratic 'leaders') (Edit: I'm not downvoting the parent, it's a legit question. But it seriously raises concerns when a straightforward factual response like this gets effectively instant 3 downvotes -- IDGAF, but contrasting the strong moral codes in tech that caused things like the Google withdrawal from the AI weapons program, there is also a strong amoral current that doesn't care about where the money comes from to do development, and it can create real consequences as referenced above.)
- icebraining 7y ago
  > Illegally-gotten money Wait, did Epstein earn his money illegally? I thought his "only" crime was molesting minors and pimping them out to his friends?
  - neffy 7y ago
    It seems like one of the more interesting aspects of all this, is that nobody really knows where he got his money from. There is an absence of the kind of filings there should be, if he was actually investing in some kind of hedge/venture capital fund.
  - toss1 7y ago
    Epstein's sources of funding are a real mystery, and the path of that money and the financial structures leaves strong indications of illegal activity starting with being a conduit for money-laundering. The whole point of laundering money is to make the gains of everything from child sex trafficking to state corruption look like plain ordinary respectable earned income when it is not even close to that.
msghacq 7y ago
Epstein’s other MIT donation came with a lot of privileges and involved people like Joi Ito flying to his residences. This is at the very least something that needs investigating and an official statement.

I may get downvoted to hell for this, but why is it bad if Epstein funded a programming language for kids? It's not like he influenced the development of the language.

toss1 7y ago

It's bad because you're effectively laundering Illegally-gotten money and legitimizing a criminal. It's exactly this attitude that serious criminals count upon to both enjoy their gains and improve their immunity. (see also RUS oligarchs & other kleptocratic 'leaders') (Edit: I'm not downvoting the parent, it's a legit question. But it seriously raises concerns when a straightforward factual response like this gets effectively instant 3 downvotes -- IDGAF, but contrasting the strong moral codes in tech that caused things like the Google withdrawal from the AI weapons program, there is also a strong amoral current that doesn't care about where the money comes from to do development, and it can create real consequences as referenced above.)

icebraining 7y ago
> Illegally-gotten money Wait, did Epstein earn his money illegally? I thought his "only" crime was molesting minors and pimping them out to his friends?
- neffy 7y ago
  It seems like one of the more interesting aspects of all this, is that nobody really knows where he got his money from. There is an absence of the kind of filings there should be, if he was actually investing in some kind of hedge/venture capital fund.
- toss1 7y ago
  Epstein's sources of funding are a real mystery, and the path of that money and the financial structures leaves strong indications of illegal activity starting with being a conduit for money-laundering. The whole point of laundering money is to make the gains of everything from child sex trafficking to state corruption look like plain ordinary respectable earned income when it is not even close to that.

msghacq 7y ago

Epstein’s other MIT donation came with a lot of privileges and involved people like Joi Ito flying to his residences. This is at the very least something that needs investigating and an official statement.