He gave fake addresses and hid on remote islands, just like he did for Covid. He is still a board member for the American company Alphabet. He stepped down in 2019.
Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it.
https://www.newsweek.com/larry-page-missing-google-jeffrey-epstein-lawsuit-founder-1799741
34 Comments
limonfiesta@lemmy.world · 106 pts · 104d
Every oligarch is a pedophile until proven otherwise.
And even then, any supposed evidence of their innocence should be suspect.
Really, it's just much be easier to assume that they are all pedophiles.
You'll be right far more often than you're wrong.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 28 pts · 104d
If they sit down at the table with them, or allowed them to sit there, they are one.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 104d
Does it even matter if they’re pedophiles?
Being an oligarchs is magnitudes larger of a crime.
limonfiesta@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 104d
Yes, it does.
For starters, it matters because their crimes have victims. So saying those crimes don't matter means those victims don't matter.
Additionally, it's incredibly helpful for public framing and understanding, especially for the people who aren't inclined to hold their immense wealth against them.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 104d
Are there really people who would turn on them if they're pedophiles but not if they’re fucking all of us? Seems the later would be easier to convince people of.
The kid raping seems like a symptom of their power, not an independent disease. Cure them of that, and they won’t be able to get away with hurting people.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 104d
Pedophilia is no respecter of any demographic. It's a serious mental illness and a serious public health issue, mental and otherwise. Oligarchy just means it's easier to pay off the people who would segregate pedofiles from society until intensive treatment and proscribed legal remedies are met.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 104d
Yeah, we have in place ways to deal with pedophiles. But those with power have means to circumvent it. Take away their power, and they’d be treated like the rest of the pedophiles. The bigger problem is their power.
village604@adultswim.fan · 7 pts · 104d
The thing is that pedophilia and child rape are two different things. Oligarchs don't rape children because they're sexually attracted to their young bodies. They do it because they get off on destroying vulnerable people with impunity.
Children are just the most vulnerable demographic.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 103d
I really dislike framing child molestation as a symptom of power, as if anyone with such power would practice child molestation.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 103d
It's starting to seem that way to me.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 102d
So the only thing that stands between you and child molestation is money and power?
NABDad@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 102d
No the only thing that stands between me and child molestation is my morality, but that also stands between me and money and power.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 102d
I think it’s more likely that those willing to ruthlessly abuse, exploit and manipulate others and the physical world in terms of resources are also much more likely to be the type of person who’s sexuality revolves around those same things. These guys are pedophiles sure but I’m sure they’re not loving, kind and compassionate lovers to the wives, partners or paid companions. It’s a different kind of sadism. I think that “the only thing standing in the way” is that I have no desire for that money and power and that alone is protective, beyond that I don’t have access to it so I’m not at risk of being corrupted. The human race has a love affair with hierarchy and money is easiest way to feed that beast, and those who are the best at sacrificing their own to it win, and kids are an easy target.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 103d
What about: Those who would molest a child will do so if they have power. I believe that would also cover non-oligarchs.
liuther9@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
To become really wealthy you have to be really low moral.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 99d
You could be born into it
liuther9@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
Usually being born into it corrupts the person too.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 103d
Sure seems like it tho.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 103d
Yes there really are. Some days it makes sense to me, some days it doesn't, but the Epstein thing is the only thing that cuts through Fox News.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 104d
If we just kill them all to be safe that would be best. The overall impact on the world population would be insignificant
fonix232@fedia.io · 5 pts · 104d
Anyone who had wealth, or had access to wealth equal to $50 million today (or more) since the 1980s should be thoroughly investigated, period, and if connections are found, any and all wealth confiscated, and used for foundations and programmes supporting victims of child/sex trafficking, exploited women, women's health research, and so on.
oldscratchXV@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 104d
How is that remotely mildly infuriating? That is just regular infuriating. Start riots and pull out guillotines infuriating.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 104d
I think it's because it's so common? We're all becoming numb to the corruption.
donut4ever@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 103d
At this point, it's actually easier to just list the ones who aren't on it. We need a complete fresh start. Like a complete wipeout of a full class of "people" to cleanse the planet from them. This is disgusting.
Damage@feddit.it · 18 pts · 103d
Don'tbe evilbless@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 103d
Don't! Be evil.
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 102d
So is his co-founder Sergey Brin: https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/jeffrey-epstein-helped-jpmorgan-land-googles-sergey-brin-as-client/
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 102d
Good on you for finding that. He stepped down at the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 4 pts · 104d
It could still be hunted and its children put out of their misery and its line extincted
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 103d
Long ago he worked with Sergey Brin to develop PageRank, the revolutionary web search engine, all so someday his life would put him in contact with Jeffery Epstein.