is the full story anywhere? people mentioning some conspiracy theory on twitter?
The usual conspiracy crowd however are trying to connect it to their old favourite, pizzagate, where they assume basically every left wing figure of note is involved in a satanic child sex cult operating out of a fake pizza shop in DC. They're also implying Aaron Schwartz was murdered to cover it up, rather than driven to suicide by overzealous prosecution of academic journal piracy.
When Marak deleted faker.js, he replaced everything with links to reddit conspiracy threads containing the same allegations.
They're also inactive for >1yr.
Important context for people who aren't going to read further.
It seems unlikely the early reddit admins would not know who maxwellhill is, whether they were Ghislaine or not.
That said, it seems to me maxwellhill (again, whoever they are) did absolutely not "promote pedophilia". The worst they've been able to find is some questions about age of consent laws.
I can absolutely see how people would be pulled deeply into conspiracy webs by this stuff.
That said, I wonder what the ToSs say on GitHub and NPM on basically taking over an account that pushes content they don’t personally agree with.
The right thing to do is for someone to properly fork the project and then they can spend the time and money providing a repo for the world to freeload on.
If someone can’t update references quickly, that’s a serious problem they need to fix with their own pipeline if they’re pointing to random third party libraries.
If the content wasn’t illegal the owner has every right to do what they want with it. They have no duty of care or warranty implied or otherwise on their own repo under that license. That’s the whole point! The whole point of pulling the rug out was an important protest on people freeloading on this person’s work.
To now freeload so badly that they effectively cancel the protest and takeover the account is certainly indicative of how ethically bankrupt the freeloaders truly are.
Judge for yourself: https://reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_...
I guess I should do my own research.
It handles about 60 types of data.
It was previously a source of controversy in the open source funding debate when Marak posted a fuck you, pay me where he refused to make any more updates until some of the corporate users started sponsoring the project, which Godaddy eventually did.
Data-mining 1980s/early 90s alt.sex and its subgroups would provide interesting insights. In the Wild West days of Usenet, internationally criminal explicit content was being passed along the university backbones. Epstein & Maxwell would have had excellent access to their respective university’s unfiltered Usenet feed. I think it would be relatively easy to identify communication networks in which they and their peers were involved.