• Coelacanth
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    18 hours ago

    They are obviously withholding incriminating documents too, but a lot of the sheer file size of what hasn’t been released is going to be many many terabytes of CSAM.

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      18 hours ago

      Is it? How would we know? Has anyone seen it and reported on it? Where is that report. Supposedly according to Corrupt Barbie “all” of the files have been released.

      And they haven’t been shy about redactions have they. They could still show something from each file. Metadata for one. identified people. Etc.

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        11 hours ago

        As someone who was fool enough to tack an “mp4” onto the end of one of those “pdf” files without knowing what was in it first – a loophole that has since been closed – I can personally attest that there are an absolute fuckton of redacted CSAM videos in the released files alone which does not include the still-missing 3M unreleased files.

        But if you want to see more evidence, here’s where I got the news to begin with:

        Reddit:
        https://old.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qx81dj/type_this_in_and_change_pdf_to_mp4/

        Alternate link:
        https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qx81dj/type_this_in_and_change_pdf_to_mp4/

        Again, it is my understanding this loophole has now been closed for the DoJ website.

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        18 hours ago

        Well, there is the candid footage captured of her saying there are “thousands of videos, all little kids”. And I have no reason to believe that particular statement was a lie. We know there was a ton of porn on there, and a ton of CSAM. Videos take up a lot of space.

        As I said, there is also going to be a ton of material that’s withheld because it’s incriminating. That’s pretty much confirmed. But not all 14 TB are going to be proof of Trump’s crimes in black and white, a lot of it is just going to be CSAM.

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          a lot of it is just going to be CSAM.

          A lot of it can’t be just CSAM. CSAM isn’t something that just naturally happens. Someone had to be the abuser in those videos. There’s no such thing as just CSAM, it’s all incriminating material. How to release those is a whole other topic because you can’t just release the video because it’s pretty much guaranteed to contain the victims. But they can blur out the victims, they can just release the audio and cut out the victims names, they can release transcriptions of video etc. We could have a whole comment chain on what would be the best way to release the information in the videos but that’s currently not the point. The point is that they could release it if they wanted to, they’re simply hiding behind the “it’s just CSAM” argument to not release the actually incriminating materials.

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          16 hours ago

          And fair enough, but I think the legislation that requires it all to be released either accounts for this or doesn’t. And if it doesn’t and they don’t have to release it, let’s hear it, because that was not what the news told me.

          One of the only non-budget-critical pieces of legislation to actually pass and be signed.