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Alpo ago

Screenshots from the site, showing Board of Directors and staff, just in case:

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Don-Keyhote ago

only name that jumps out to me is eric posner son of appellate judge ((Richard Posner)) described in this NYT profile:

Posner was born in New York City in 1939 to parents who were Communists, or at least fellow travelers. He held traditionally left-liberal views into adulthood, including the time of his clerkship on the Supreme Court with a liberal lion, Justice William Brennan.

Notoriously, Posner entertained the idea (though he thought it implausible) that it might be best not to punish the crime of rape if the rapist enjoys the act enough to outweigh the harm to the victim; the reason to criminalize rape, he argued, was to channel sex into forms like marriage, in which women are compensated like other sex workers. He suggested openness to the notion of selling babies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/books/review/richard-posner-biography-william-domnarski.html?_r=0

search4truth ago

I'm not surprised that they would openly express such a vile belief system. They openly show their disdain for regular people.

Posner observed that his theory treated unproductive people as morally irrelevant (or worse) and viewed social resources expended on the poor as wasted. Questions about the distribution of a society’s wealth, he argued, were properly excluded from legal analysis altogether. Posner adopted his wealth-maximization theory at the same moment in which, as we now know, market-oriented public policies began to exacerbate socioeconomic inequality. Notoriously, Posner entertained the idea (though he thought it implausible) that it might be best not to punish the crime of rape if the rapist enjoys the act enough to outweigh the harm to the victim; the reason to criminalize rape, he argued, was to channel sex into forms like marriage, in which women are compensated like other sex workers.

doubletake ago

that's insane about rape. eric posner is bad news. he also likes surveillance.

Let’s Just Censor Eric Posner.

https://medium.com/@PaulGowder/let-s-just-censor-eric-posner-instead-9975537eb548#.dw5l2fu2o

Alpo ago

The name stood out to me as well and that's one reason why I thought it might be a good idea to make sure the list didn't disappear.