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Bill Gates cancels keynote speech in India amid questions over Epstein ties (www.theguardian.com)

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Bill Gates has pulled out of a keynote address at the AI Impact Summit in India as he continues to face questions over his relationship with the deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The billionaire Microsoft co-founder travelled to India, where his foundation works with the government on delivering AI for social good, earlier this week and was advertised as speaking at the international summit shortly after the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi.

But Gates suddenly withdrew on Thursday morning, hours before he was due to address delegates, including the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.

The Gates Foundation said in a statement: “After careful consideration and to ensure the focus remains on the AI summit’s key priorities, Mr Gates will not be delivering his keynote address..”

The move came less than 48 hours after the Gates Foundation had insisted: “Bill Gates is attending the AI Impact Summit. He will be delivering his keynote as scheduled.”

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We're not operating in a court of law where evidence, rules, and procedure are meant to make sure that the process is fair. I would agree that charging Bill Gates criminally is a non-starter at the moment.,

Howevere, this the court of public opinion where we can and will judge people for anything regardless if there are facts to support or not. This is only way us plebs are going to get a justice when it comes to the capital class. We should destroy their reputations. It's not like Bill Gates is going to live a terrible life from this. The amount of wealth that Bill Gates has means that he will never suffer from a poor reputation. If Bill Gates was a poor shlub like us, I would agree that destroying somene's reputation in the public opinion until the facts come up will probably be a net negative.

If Bill Gates is worried about his reputation, then he can go on the record and explain everything.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

Agree with whom that charging him criminally is a non starter? Absolutely no one would agree with that, everyone would agree he had to be charged, if not for the evidence being redacted and unreleased by the corrupt administration after Gates' protection money came through, and his own evidence of other conspirators was in a place to be released if he was taken down I presume.

As if these guys aren't guilty, we all know they are guilty, and anyone pretending otherwise loses all credibility. Enough of billionaires buying their way out of trouble, and enough of them paying for influence operations to play us to support it. Of which your mind was fertile ground for it appears.