My half assed summary: Epstein corresponded with Leon Black, who runs an investment firm that bought Shutterfly which owns Lifetouch the school photo company. So now schools (kids? Leadership? Idk) are uncomfortable working with that company on the idea that they worry they’re being preyed on by providing fresh meat to pedophiles.
This “pedogate” is sadly going to devolve into standard Christian stranger danger paranoia instead of recognizing the ruling class sees us as chattel and playthings
Maybe the schools should stop using a corporate photography company in the first place that spams the fuck out of me and charges out the ass for photos and just go back to using local photographers. No AI touchups or green screen backgrounds. Just take the fucking picture and email it to me.
Supremely ridiculous. All of you people posted pictures of your kids and let them and indoctrinate them into posting pictures of themselves on Zuckbook and Zuckbook properties like instagram. Zuck is in photos on the island. Even if Zuck is too much of a robot lizard to abuse kids himself he would sell a package access of photos to kids to his pedo creepy friends cheap and probably include a list of their interests and names of their friends too.
Compared to that a school photo is… fuck off, just fuck the fuck off with this
prudishnonsense. Someone else said it but I sadly agree, at this point the result of the Epstein thing is going to be more Christian panic stranger danger nonsense and hyper-vigilance and freaking out at random people taking photos of scenic landscapes because your kids happen to be in the corner of the view and no actual movement against powerful pedophiles. More pizza parlors will be shot up and more enraged turbo-Facebook user moms will start screaming matches in public with wild accusations but the institutions, the powerful men, etc will continue to operate unhindered while the proles bicker among themselves and jump at shadows. Eventually in 15 years most people will begin to disbelieve it was anything other than another satanic panic and begin to question whether it was all just an overreaction and over-correct by doubting kids even when there’s really reason to believe and allowing in even more surveillance because they don’t want to be like the prudes they were manipulated into being a decade ago.
prudish
They are being ridiculous but I don’t see what prudishness has to do with it
Perhaps you’re right. I’m thinking of the whole evangelical culture, the 90s/2000s satanic panic I was brought up in as a young child and this type of thinking could easily lead to reaction, atomized people still posting all the photos of their kids for pedos on social media to consume but freaking out over how their kids dress, policing that kind of thing, not allowing kids to go out with friends, etc.
I always hated school pictures but this may be going a bit too far
Any paranoia and rebellion against the billionaires is good, no matter why or how.
And now that I think about it; I would be very surprised if the photo company was not making extra money from all the information given it
Like someone else here brought up though I’m not a huge fan of this all being redirected towards a return to satanic panic / stranger danger mindsets
The school photo company Lifetouch is owned by the Apollo group, who’s founder Leon Black is a major Epstein player. The link is very tenuous, but given how widespread the coverup has been I understand why people are freaked out by even a small connection.
There’s no evidence that Lifetouch, as a company, conspired with or even corresponded with Epstein. Lifetouch’s current CEO, Ken Murphy, is not in the public Epstein files.
These claims began because Lifetouch’s parent company is owned by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, whose ex-CEO, Leon Black, has come under scrutiny for his close financial and personal relationship to Epstein.
Apollo acquired Lifetouch’s parent company, Shutterfly, when Black ran the private equity firm. Lifetouch’s president at the time, Greg Hintz, was not in the available Epstein files.
In a statement, Lifetouch said Apollo is “not involved in the day-to-day operations” of Lifetouch and that the company has never provided images to any third party. A spokesperson for Lifetouch told Snopes that any allegations it was involved with Epstein’s crimes are “completely false.”
