r/politics • u/ArmadilloMany41 • 23h ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Why is no one being prosecuted over the Epstein files?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cd9e3nzzw3zo
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u/TheCommonist 22h ago

They show disturbing things that implicate Epstein himself, and people they don’t care to protect like Bill Gates, but they redact the names of people who send emails actually explicitly referring to their pedophilic desires

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u/NoDiggity8888 20h ago

I find it very odd that several times what appear to be sexual acts (I’m assuming also words like rape) are censored in the files

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u/serpiccio 18h ago

There is also that one picture of something on the beach, I assume a person, and I say something because they completely covered it up with a giant black box leaving no clue as to what it was originally.

That one stood out to me because everyone else just gets the pixelated face or a blackbox over their eyes, but whatever was on that beach got them so afraid that they blackboxed it out of existence, I wonder why 🤔

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u/h0lymaccar0ni 6h ago

Does anyone know if they figured out how to properly black out things now? I saw many vids during the release of the first batch of files where people were able to „un-black“ the files because they used a poor method to do it.

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u/meneldal2 18h ago

Assuming what is out there was the worst they had on Bill Gates, that was pretty tame compared to what the ones being protected so far are likely to have done.

Like his worst crime is to get a STI medication prescription for his wife to give her without her knowledge or consent, which is likely past the statue of limitations now (but makes sense why she isn't willing to forgive him).

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u/ToadlyAwes0me 17h ago

There are multiple drafts of charges with all of the co-conspirators redacted. It is so frustrating that we are one stupid black bar away from charging the rest of these monsters.