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NEWS: Sony Confirms Firing of PlayStation VP George Cacioppo After Video Posted Accusing Him of Pedo

I suppose the way I would prefer these things to go (but I doubt many people would do it that way) would be for groups like this to do their thing but then give what they found to law enforcement and directly work with them without making their findings public until the case is completely done and over with (or officials give them the go-ahead, I suppose).

The article does say they did first try to hand the information over to the DA and only released it once it was clear the DA wasn't acting on it.

You need to leave this kind of work to the professionals. These Youtubers are amateurs.

If these articles are an accurate summary of the information available to the DA, I'm not surprised they didn't act on it, because it certainly wouldn't be enough to actually prosecute a person, especially one who will have access to good legal defense resources. I certainly hope Sony had something more concrete (maybe they talked to him and he admitted it?), because there's not a lot here if you don't have blind faith in the credibility of anonymous internet detectives.

They supposedly have conversation records that led up to the meet up iirc. However, I do share your lack of faith in the credibility of someone who most likely is monetizing their channel thus has a financial incentive to find people to catch.

I don't know if Sony needs cause to fire him. I would assume California is on the better side as far as worker protection since it is a blue state? They might have just decided it was better to be sued by the guy than take all the negative press from letting him continue to work there.

SilverTalon01 wrote:

They supposedly have conversation records that led up to the meet up iirc. However, I do share your lack of faith in the credibility of someone who most likely is monetizing their channel thus has a financial incentive to find people to catch. I don't know if Sony needs cause to fire him. I would assume California is on the better side as far as worker protection since it is a blue state? They might have just decided it was better to be sued by the guy than take all the negative press from letting him continue to work there.

You wouldn't need cause to fire someone in general. Firing with or without cause affects some of the consequences and costs of that firing (for a person of his level, mostly bonuses, I would assume), but firing without cause is almost never prohibited. There are some reasons (which is different than the term "with cause") that are illegal, but "makes us look bad because he was accused of being a pedophile" is not one of them.

I guess I don't consider digital conversation records from an anonymous internet collective to be super compelling. But I didn't look them up, maybe there's something to give them credibility.