He Who Must Not Be Tolerated
Joi
Ito’s fall from grace for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was
much deserved. But his style of corner-cutting ethics is all too common
in tech.
"Voldemort?
Of all the terrible details of the gross fraud that the former head of the M.I.T. Media Lab, Joichi Ito, and his minions perpetrated in trying to cover up donations
by Jeffrey Epstein to the high-profile tech research lab, perhaps
giving a pedophile a nickname of a character in a book aimed at children
was the most awful.
“The effort to
conceal the lab’s contact with Epstein was so widely known that some
staff in the office of the lab’s director, Joi Ito, referred to Epstein
as Voldemort or ‘he who must not be named,’ ” wrote Ronan Farrow in The
New Yorker, in his eviscerating account of the moral and leadership failings of one of the digital industry’s top figures."
