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jacobappelbaum.net is a fake: https://twitter.com/ValbonneConsult/status/74046605073149952... https://twitter.com/ValbonneConsult/status/74046629719723212... Also whatever he might have done will now be drowned out by these false accusations. Mob mentality is as bad as whatever he might have done.
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> May I argue that it is uncomfortably low? You may; but it is certainly high enough to lend credence to those concerned about false accusations.
That doesn't matter. As espadrine says, if the number of false-positives is not similar to the number of false-negatives, you may be concerned by whichever of these numbers you find personally threatening, but you can't claim that to be "the problem". If in a community of cats and mice cat's kill 30% of mice, and mice kill 3% of cats, some cats may personally find that 3% to be uncomfortably high for their taste, but…
I don't know that anyone is claiming it to be "the problem"; but rather "a problem".
False accusations are, like corruption, something that makes the law look bad; and that makes cooperating with the law look bad. It's a problem not only for those falsely accused but also for those who have true accusations to bring!
> If in a community of cats and mice cat's kill 30% of mice, and mice kill 3% of cats, some cats may personally find that 3% to be uncomfortably high for their taste, but they can't say that this constitutes the worrying part of the violence problem in society.
"Now they have two problems."