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I hope nobody feels it's inappropriate to name a sexual harasser leading the Bitcoin community, but is there any chance the recent coverage of sexual harassment and rape in Hollywood, SAG AFTRA, and other industries will open more people's eyes about Brock Pierce, the Director of the Bitcoin Foundation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Pierce

"In 2000, three young actors filed a civil lawsuit claiming Pierce sexually abused them, also naming fellow Digital Entertainment Network executives Chad Shackley and Marc Collins-Rector. He was an Executive VP at Digital Entertainment Network when he was arrested with other company executives by Interpol in Spain in May 2002."

Here's a brief South Park style documentary on the DEN scandal that Fucked Company posted contemporaneously: "Dot Com Boom & Bust - Digital Entertainment Network": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674632

It's like Pizzagate, but true! (But you should still ignore anything Alex Jones has to say about it.)

If you think it's just a joke or conspiracy theory, then watch the film "An Open Secret" which goes into much more lurid detail with lots of first person testimony and evidence, that shows what's been uncovered in the time since Fucked Company's much shorter, less serious but largely accurate documentary. Not surprisingly they've had a lot of trouble distributing that film.

An Open Secret Trailer 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQvFgkI0R4

"An Open Secret": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5icPtmLsTy4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Secret

"According to Gabe Hoffman who financed the film: "We got zero Hollywood offers to distribute the film. Not even one. Literally no offers for any price whatsoever." On 12 October 2017, Hoffman and Valentinas released the film for nine days on Vimeo "to commemorate serial predator Harvey Weinstein finally being exposed." It went viral, and free viewing was then extended for a longer period due to the interest shown in the film, with over 3 million viewings garnered on various social media platforms in the first two weeks."

http://deadline.com/2015/06/sag-aftra-threatening-sue-an-ope...

"Leaders of SAG-AFTRA tried to sanitize director Amy Berg’s explosive documentary about the sexual abuse of child actors in Hollywood, threatening to sue her if she didn’t remove all references to the union from An Open Secret, which opens in a platform release in three cities beginning today. It may be the first time a Hollywood union has ever threatened to take legal action against a filmmaker over the content of a film."

Here's the money shot where they show the pills, the gun safe, the receipts and emails from Brock Pierce to Chad Shackley and Marc Collins Rector, in which Brock Pierce is sending Chad Shackley email with photos of scantily dressed young boys for him cherry pick for recruiting and grooming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5icPtmLsTy4&t=1h8m8s

"It's an email from Brock to Chad. And it says 'What do you think?' and then there's a picture of a young boy. This one says from Brock to Chad, 'another interesting one from MI'. Chad's response on that one was 'That's a yummy one :)' And Brock writes to him 'Would you like me to contact either of them?' Chad writes 'They both look cute, but what's their deal?'"

There was some discussion of these facts with more links to evidence in the thread about "Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment (nytimes.com)".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674632

And here is photo of Brock Pierce chilling at Trump's inaugural lounge with his "MAKE BITCOIN GREAT AGAIN" cap.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155736654012782&se...

And then of course there's the Steve Bannon connection:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/stephen-bannon-w...

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/ff-ige/

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/trumps-campaign-ceos-little-kn...

Now what was that about draining the swamp?




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