Reddit is also removing and shadowbannig such posts, but there's a community on https://lemmy.world/post/42440468
replyAre they being removed or replaced with more heavily redacted documents? There were definitely some victim names that slipped through the cracks that have since been redacted.
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replyInitially under "Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R.4405)" on https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures, all datasets had .zip links. I first saw that page when all but dataset 11 (or 10) had a .zip link. At one point this morning, all the .zip links were removed, now it seems like most are back again.
replyI think some of the released documents included images of victims, which where redacted. So it's not necessarily malicious removals
replyThat's my understanding too, so archiving the unredacted images could mean holding CSAM.
replyWhich is of course very convenient for the government, similar to when wikileaks got prosecuted for holding state secrets.
replyIf we're assuming they didn't leave victims unredacted on purpose
replyPretty devious tactic if so. Chilling effect on both any further witnesses and anybody interested in archiving the data (gives them an ethical conundrum at least). In addition to giving them (the feds) a convenient excuse to take down random docs.
replyNot about a ethical conondrum when rehosting. Anyone who rehosts the whole files can be accused of hosting child porn and doxxing and taken down.
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