[KingOfCoders]

We didn't know anything.

"Noam’s email to Epstein, in which Epstein sought advice about the press, should be read in context. Epstein had claimed to Noam that he [Epstein] was being unfairly persecuted".

and

"2019 did we learn the full extent"

Full extent? So what did you know before? All of this does not make any sense.

[pinnochio]

This is your third top-level comment on this thread, when you're still in the edit window for the first. These are also pretty poor comments.

Did you have some prior beef with Chomsky?

[KingOfCoders]

You're always hit hardest when it's your idols. Also: Nothing better to do.

[iugtmkbdfil834]

<< You're always hit hardest when it's your idols

Honestly, the reactions I am seeing suggest exactly this issue. I personally like the guy and have some level of respect of the work he has done over the course of the years, but I see no need to automatically defend him from scrutiny.

This is the part that annoys the crap out of me in today's environment -- and if more people had more sense, it would annoy them too. Sufficiently radioactive accusation is enough to make person not available for public consumption. Like.. if he he guilty ( there is a good evidence suggesting that ), charge him and see where it lands.

Prevalence of a court of public opinion indicates a real problem with real courts.

[KingOfCoders]

Yes, first heard of Chomsky in computer science classes at university, then was totally amazed by reading a decade later Manufacturing Consent - the same guy! I thought. So, it's very sad for me to read all of this - fighting for East Timor while at the same time hanging out with the Elite and taking their money - preaching water and drinking wine and all of that - exactly the people written about in many of his texts.