Conspiracies Are Often Unnecessary

Elliot Temple
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://curi.us/2579-conspiracies-are-often-unnecessary
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I think this is a really good post.

I have one correction to suggest:

What was the result of Love bravely speaking out? As far as I know, basically nothing. Weinstein lost his job in 2017 and was arrested in 2018. I don’t think either journalists or law enforcement did a serious investigation in 2005 after Love’s comment. Her old comment got attention after he got in trouble.

I have not dug deep into this, but I have read that Courtney Love claims she was blacklisted/banned by the Hollywood agency CAA for that remark against Weinstein. If that’s true, it means there actually was a significant result of her speaking out, but you are right that the result was not an investigation into Weinstein. The result was that she got punished. She had a harder time working in Hollywood.

So I think this is basically an even better example than currently stated.

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Thanks. I Googled it then added this sentence:

And Love says she was banned from the CAA talent agency for speaking out, so she did face retaliation that harmed her career.

And deleted this sentence:

As far as I know, basically nothing.

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I really liked the “Late Adopters” section. It was a good insight that was less obvious to me than powerful people having legal and social resources the whistleblowers don’t have.

Edit: I realized “less obvious” implies it was somewhat obvious, which I don’t think it was.