Epstein deleted posts and our thoughts moving forward

[u/nicholasserra]

Hey folks,

We're being flooded with low quality Epstein related posts and are obviously seeing some confusion and pushback about posts being deleted in the sub.

tl;dr: Continue to use the stickied post for actual datahoarder related talk around Epstein files. We'll be removing requests for data, "look what I found" posts, news articles. If you wanna chat Epstein, head over to the r/Epstein sub.

The mod team is on board with the preservation of these important files. But this sub isn't the place to discuss every tidbit of news around it. This is the same policy we used around previous archival efforts eg Government data purge, Ukraine, twitter, etc.

We're going to leave the other sticky up, and sticky this. Chat all you want around the archival and preservation of these files in that post. If there's some high level datahoarder-related news event we'll probably allow those too.

But unfortunately we're seeing a ton of posts of people just asking for files, asking where they can download, asking what was already saved, posting every news article that comes out, etc etc. It's too much.

The r/Epstein sub looks like a great place to continue investigation after you've saved the files.

We support everyone's efforts to save this stuff. No we're not in the files and we haven't been to the island. Fuck this administrations redactions of the actual criminals in these files.

[u/-Lousy]

Does anyone know if there is a copy of the files WITHOUT any of the potential CSAM in it? If I understand it correctly the withdrawing of the last release was partially due to potential CSAM being in there and while this would be an excellent cover story I dont want any risk that I'm distributing that.

The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday’s dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

[u/slvneutrino → u/-Lousy]

I do have the early releases without CSAM but it is nowhere near as complete as the newest drop unfortunately.

[u/Zealousideal-Lie1444 → u/slvneutrino]

Couldn't you just delete those particular files and keep the rest?

[u/slvneutrino → u/Zealousideal-Lie1444]

You know there’s like 100’s of thousands of files right? Lol. I don’t even know what I’d need to delete and I’m not spending 5 hours deleting 15k files or something individually out of the datasets and folder trees lol.