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DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files (www.404media.co)
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The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday’s dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Unlike the majority of the images in the released files, both the nudity and the faces of the people were not redacted, making them easy to identify. In some of the photos, the women or girls were either fully nude or partially undressed, posed for cameras, and exposed their genitals.

The files include more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday in a press conference, including “large quantities of commercial pornography and images that were seized from Epstein’s devices,” some of which were taken by Epstein, according to Blanche.

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[–] 132 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Does that mean we can charge these agents for distribution of CSAM.

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  • [–] 60 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No, I think the idea is now if you download the newest epstein files they can charge YOU with CSAM. Even if you didn't know it was there when you downloaded it.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Seems to be the only logical reason; a way to criminally indict any opposers who have records kept against them. Did something similar before by releasing misinformation then deleting it from their server if I recall correctly. It's all despicable, definitely maddening to see our tax dollars fund this.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Generally no, laws like that are written with exceptions for law enforcement in the course of their normal duties. It'd be trivial to argue in court that that's what this is, and the reason for the redaction failure is the deadline Congress set.

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    • [–] 111 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Busy redacting Trump's name, federal government publishes CSAM.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Trying to excise any CSAM (if they really were trying) is hard to do with only Ctrl-F and the use of LLMs, most likely.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Actually detecting nudity in photos is one of the things algorithms have got pretty good at. I would think if it was something they were concerned about, it would have been pretty simple to run a nudity filter over the whole set.

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    • [–] 82 points 9 months ago

    This administration is comic book levels of both evil and incompetence.

    "The citizens are screaming at us for taking too long redacting everything, so just release everything."

    Proceeds to publish CSAM

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    [–] 62 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I don't believe this was missed at all. Even if it's a bad look for the admin it'll still soak up hundreds of hours of talk time when we should be talking about the depraved shit the victims statements accused Trump of doing to them.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Let's not get hyper focused on Trumpy to the point that rest of the fuck wits, nonces, and pieces of shits get to skate by.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Well perhaps decent to focus on the dude with the US nuclear arsenal at his whim a little bit....

    Not that I think it diminishes any other mentions there.

    Their whole goal, flood the zone with everything, few people keep up with one thing.

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    • [–] 47 points 9 months ago

    Amazing how much more consistant they never miss to redact people listed as co-conspirators... but so frequently miss the one thing they are actually supposed to be redacting

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    [–] 34 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I thought they were stalling on this so they could protect the victims. Or at least that was their bullshit narrative.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They've got a different definition of victim, and they are doing their best (which isn't very good, frankly, they're very incompetent) to censor any mention of him. Or to take it down after accidentally posting it. Again, they're very incompetent.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    I don't disagree that they're incompetent. But in this particular case what they're doing isn't incompetent at all. Surely you've noticed that anything in there that has Trumps name next to it is all things that couldn't be corroborated. Or things that couldn't be followed up on for one reason it another.

    They took his name off from anything that was potentially investigated and proven, and left the "she says.." statements that have had no investigative follow-up so they can say "look how honest we are. Yes he's in there but none of it is actually provable"

    Its a greasy, and slimy and frankly pure evil scheme. But its not an incompetent one.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This was done purposefully and to inflict pain.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Idk about to purposely inflict pain, but more because they don't give a fuck about who they hurt, but I do agree it was on purpose. That way they can claim it's the public's fault for demanding these files.

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    • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm honestly surprised they haven't said, "calling it CSAM is woke."

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    • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    They did this on purpose.

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    [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional. "Why are you wanting to see all the files instead of just reading the normal news? Are you a nonce or what?"

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    [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They spent how long and how many tax dollars paying federal employees overtime to redact this stuff?

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    • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Glad we were able to get all that Trump stuff out we might have missed something important.

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    • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Man, the disintegration of Trump's base is fascinating to watch. The DOJ just gave up censoring things and released a shit load of unredacted files. Yes, there is CSAM but importantly the files are wide open and showing everything. And boy does it look really bad for a lot of people who were all wrapped up with Epstein.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    And boy does it look really bad for a lot of people who were all wrapped up with Epstein.

    I look forward to the infighting.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's interesting that allegedly the "pizza" code talk was in there.

    Go figure - it was Donvict's BFF that is the sex trafficker talking in code referencing pizza.

    Not Podesta, not Hillary Clinton and not Obama, operating out of the basement of Comet Ping Pong or whatever the fuck...

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    • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I don't want to see these images, but I want to know the context of them. Is there any article that describes the scenario taking place? I really don't want to start searching for this.

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Can we just start a world war already so I can get distracted from......this.

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    • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    we cant access website,but this is typical life of oligarchs/rich. they are money,they are power

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