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Why don't social media companies ever deplatform university presidents, like Rafael Reif of MIT, who provide reputation laundering for brutal dictators like the
by selfishgene 6y ago
Why don't social media companies ever deplatform university presidents, like Rafael Reif of MIT, who provide reputation laundering for brutal dictators like the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia or racketeers in the sex-trafficking business like Jeffrey Epstein by taking photos with them for the newspaper or sending them "personally signed" thank-you notes?
- selfishgene 6y ago... or the elites in other societies like French novelist Gabriel Matzneff, who wrote about how much he enjoyed sexually molesting multiple 8 year-old boys in bed at the same time during his trips to the Philippines. Instead of de-platforming Mr. Matzneff, he was applauded for his work on French television show Apostrophe, and even received a "thank-you note" from former President of France Francois Mitterand, which one of his victims described as designed to help Mr. Matzneff avoid arrest by French police much like in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, who received his "thank-you note" from still-president of MIT Rafael Reif, before finally being forced to face charges 30 years later for the sexual abuse of minors: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matzneff-pedophilia-france.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matz...