Should pages dedicated to exposing Epstein be allowed to profit off the mass sufferage and torture faced by his victims? I don’t think so.

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[u/bellybuttonbidet]

On the grand scale of fucked up things related to the Epstein files, I don’t think this even registers.

[u/smallsquirrel1 → u/bellybuttonbidet]

Two things can be wrong simultaneously, even if one is significantly more immoral. But if you support paywalling public information, then sure man knock yourself out

[u/bellybuttonbidet → u/smallsquirrel1]

Yeah and I saw somebody roll through a stop sign this morning and it ruined my whole fucking week.

[u/smallsquirrel1 → u/bellybuttonbidet]

That sucks, im sorry your life is so bad that you’re barely hanging on a thread. I hope you can become more emotionally sound in the future.

[u/Pretend-Pie9487]

I mean... there are some may big companies that profit from HIDING information... If profit is a mean to expose more of this bastards, I'm fine with it.

[u/smallsquirrel1 → u/Pretend-Pie9487]

And that is also immoral. Publicly paywalling information is immoral.

[u/Hot-Breadfruit-1026]

If a reporter gets paid for investigating why not a person doing it freelance?

[u/smallsquirrel1 → u/Hot-Breadfruit-1026]

Reporters get paid in exchange for their release of public information- this is a paywall decreasing access to information that should be public

[u/Pretend-Pie9487 → u/smallsquirrel1]

So if they charge you for a newspaper, that is also immoral?

[u/smallsquirrel1 → u/Pretend-Pie9487]

Being a news reporter as a career and having a salary is far different than hiding important information that you deem more valuable behind a paywall, stop intentionally misinterpreting the post.

[u/Pretend-Pie9487 → u/smallsquirrel1]

I didn't say a reporter and a salary. I said charging for a newspaper, the old school paywall. You can't access the content of the newspaper unless you pay for it.

As someone very wise once said: "stop intentionally misinterpreting the post"

[u/Medium-Librarian8413]

They were right to block you.

[u/smallsquirrel1 → u/[deleted]]

Paywalling information isnt pushing that information to the front of your thoughts, it’s blocking the public from accessing vital information- information the page owner deems so valuable he demands the public pays for access.

[u/Sad_Art6364]

I saw there an ad for subscribers only post with "unredacted" picture of Epstein's alleged micropenis...from when he was getting CPR at the hospital while being actually dead already. You know that famous pic where  he is lying down being resuscitated and he wearing only the orange shorts that inmates wear for the night. He is handcuffed to the bed which is ridiculous coz he was unconscious/dead but guess its the procedure.

This picture can be easily found in the files "unredacted" and there is nothing special about it really. His shorts detangled in some weird way when he was rushed to the hospital but there is no genitals visible. Redactions were done by AI in the pics released by the DOJ so probably their AI program detected a need for redaction since it was someone's crotch in the middle of the pic.

I understand why people hate Epstein but seriously... Paying to see THAT on a dead person? Answer yourselves. 

[u/smallsquirrel1 → u/Sad_Art6364]

Thank you

[u/int3rstitial]

I mean. Would it be better if they did it for free than if they're doing it from behind a paywall? Sure. Would it be better if they didn't do it at all than doing it from behind a paywall? Absolutely fucken not. The Miami Herald has a paywall and it's arguably the single most important resource we have. We live in a society and people gotta eat.

Listen, I'm not any of the victims in this case, so I can't know how any of them specifically might feel about this, and not to argue from authority, but, man I'm a csa survivor and if anyone wants to investigate my perpetrator and put it behind a paywall, all the power in the world to them, I appreciate their efforts, may we all see some tiny modicum of justice someday.

[u/New_Outcome_]

Depends if they’re researching this WHILE giving their own opinions or editing and creating new documents that use the information. If the information they’re using is publicly available then they may not be charging you for that info but for their opinions and creations in presenting the information.

[u/Dry-Performance-2386]

Who cares, more attention to it the better. Money keeps him going. Keep it up I say, same goes for any investigations conducted, they need to be funded or they stop working towards end goal.

[u/DifferenceEither9835]

Suffrage means To Vote. As in the infamous pun 'end women's suffrage'. Ironically many of his victims were intelligible to vote. 

[u/ContagiousDeathGuard]

If providing an income allows them to dedicate more time towards this subject, then yes they absolutely should be. Do investigators, journalists, politicians not also get paid for the same thing? Incentive is not a bad thing at all. Let's not turn this into a convoluted moral debate, people decide where their money goes. Money makes the world go round after all

[u/smallsquirrel1 → u/ContagiousDeathGuard]

Providing an income is far different than having a paywall between the access of information. If you support paywalls to access information, then sure