[wyck]

I think the point for this particular case, which you did allude to, is that there was nothing anonymous about the relationship. Everyone knew about it, some of them implicated directly in the actual court case (Minsky). This is more about a completely corrupt and toxic culture at Media Lab. It would have been more interesting to look deeper into Joi Ito for example and the posturing of several key players when exposed, than wax poetic about the blanket of anonymity.

[bitL]

How do you know that culture inside Media Lab was "completely corrupt and toxic"? From my experience, it was (is?) a super cool place and most researchers didn't have any clue what was going on with the funding. I bet there are many universities where revolts would happen if true donors and their actions were revealed. You even have whole famous universities named after robber barons.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

> a super cool place and most researchers didn't have any clue what was going on with the funding.

I don't know. I think witnessing the lab director giving tours to an old man accompanied by very young foreign women who raise suspicions that they might be victims of human trafficking, should make people at least consider that there is something shady going on with the funding.

[ineedasername]

Apparently some people raise objections and were ignored, and some staff were convince of the possibility Epstein brought trafficked women with him when he visited. It's not like those people wouldn't talk to others, their friends there, etc., the frustration and disappointment simmering beneath the surface. Sure, not everyone may have felt it, but it doesn't mean it wasn't there.