Sony VP fired after appearing in pedophile sting video

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Sony VP fired after appearing in pedophile sting video

He allegedly planned to meet a 15-year-old boy.

 

A senior Sony vice president has been terminated from the electronics and entertainment giant after being caught up in an amateur pedophilia sting video.

 

George Cacioppo was allegedly trying to arrange a meeting with a 15-year-old boy, according to a video posted by the YouTube channel People vs. Preds. Cacioppo had been a senior vice president of engineering for Sony for the past eight years and worked on the PlayStation Store, according to his LinkedIn profile. He has since been fired after appearing in the video. 

 

"We are aware of the situation and the employee in question has been terminated from employment," Sony said in an emailed statement Sunday. 

 

Cacioppo didn't immediately respond to a request from comment submitted through his LinkedIn account.

 

In the video, a cameraman is seen walking down a street toward a house that Cacioppo is standing outside of. He then asks Cacioppo who he's planning on meeting, referring to him as "Jeff." As the cameraman asks more questions, Cacioppo walks back into the house and closes the door while refusing to answer. The cameraman proceeds to start yelling he would call the cops on Cacioppo. 

 

According to a Google Drive link posted in the video's description. Cacioppo allegedly spoke with a person who said they were 15 years old on Grindr, the social networking app for gay, bi, trans and queer people. The two exchanged pictures and Cacioppo told the decoy that his name was "Jeff." He then allegedly provided the decoy with his address in order to have sex. The decoy said they would take an Uber to his location and Cacioppo was waiting outside. 

 

It's unclear whether law enforcement was called following the encounter. San Diego Police didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. 

 

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/sony-vp-fired-after-appearing-in-pedophile-sting-video/

 

 

[Helyx]

Yikes. The things people will do for a PS5.

[Jigsy1]

So current Sony will treat Japanese games as if they're child pornography, and anyone who likes them as if they're a child molester, and yet their VP goes and does this...

Edited December 6, 2021 by Jigsy1

[Abby_TheLastofUs]

29 minutes ago, Jigsy1 said:

So current Sony will treat Japanese games as if they're child pornography, and anyone who likes them as if they're a child molester, and yet their VP goes and does this...

 

This guy's job had nothing to do with games needing changes to appear on PS platforms. His job was on the engineering side.

 

If Sony actually did treat Japanese games as child pornography and people that liked those games as child molesters, it would make total sense for this guy to have continued working there, even if Sony knew he was a predator. Because Sony still sells Japanese games, so if they sell games they consider "child pornography" and viewed people they considered "child molesters" as their customers, they'd have no problem with someone like this guy working for them.

 

Of course, if you'd step out of your bubble for a minute, you might realize what's actually happening. Sony doesn't consider Japanese games to be child porn, which is why they still sell them, and when they learned a child molester was at their company, they quickly fired him.

[Quink666]

Good riddance. Hopefully law enforcement get involved and this pos get whats coming to him.

[StewartBros]

Hope Sony are not just firing this POS, but withdrawing any benefits he might have been entitled to by working for them - i.e. no severance package, no pension, nothing.

 

Fuck him.  Let him burn.

[RadiantFlamberge]

What revolting behavior. Good call by Sony to give him the boot. I bet law enforcement will get involved, and they should.

[Nelson_]

9 hours ago, Abby_TheLastofUs said:

 

If Sony actually did treat Japanese games as child pornography and people that liked those games as child molesters, it would make total sense for this guy to have continued working there, even if Sony knew he was a predator. 1. Because Sony still sells Japanese games, so if they sell games they consider "child pornography" and viewed people they considered "child molesters" as their customers, they'd have no problem with someone like this guy working for them.

 

Of course, if you'd step out of your bubble for a minute, you might realize what's actually happening. 2. Sony doesn't consider Japanese games to be child porn, which is why they still sell them, and when they learned a child molester was at their company, they quickly fired him.

 

1. For me this is wrong in some ways, only a few main streamers do sell but hardly counting next year.

2. While forcing JP Devs to censor themselfs even in Japan? lol no many JP Devs are out of Sony due to Censorship Policy

 

10 hours ago, Jigsy1 said:

So current Sony will treat Japanese games as if they're child pornography, and anyone who likes them as if they're a child molester, and yet their VP goes and does this...

 

That State has most Anti JP Racists proven with their Unjustified Censorship of Art.
That State has most Anti JP Xenophobia proven with their Unjustified Censorship of Art.
Adultbabies are hired to work for Sony except of Asia/Japan.

[TheMutilatingOne]

1 hour ago, Nelson_ said:

 

1. For me this is wrong in some ways, only a few main streamers do sell but hardly counting next year.

2. While forcing JP Devs to censor themselfs even in Japan? lol no many JP Devs are out of Sony due to Censorship Policy

 

 

That State has most Anti JP Racists proven with their Unjustified Censorship of Art.
That State has most Anti JP Xenophobia proven with their Unjustified Censorship of Art.
Adultbabies are hired to work for Sony except of Asia/Japan.

California should join the ocean, regressive puritanical hypocrites.  Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay.

[Rozalia1]

I don't think this is exactly the time to be taking up arms over the whole Japanese censorship thing. Sony is not okay with this obviously and fired him the moment they learned of it. Had they known to start with they'd obviously not had him in his position. 

 

4 hours ago, Nelson_ said:

1. For me this is wrong in some ways, only a few main streamers do sell but hardly counting next year.

2. While forcing JP Devs to censor themselfs even in Japan? lol no many JP Devs are out of Sony due to Censorship Policy

 

 

That State has most Anti JP Racists proven with their Unjustified Censorship of Art.
That State has most Anti JP Xenophobia proven with their Unjustified Censorship of Art.
Adultbabies are hired to work for Sony except of Asia/Japan.

 

I'm not going to address the censorship bit itself. I generally disagree with the censorship myself, though some censorship is actually an improvement (dress changes in Death end re;Quest 2 for example) and in others incredibly minor (Zanki Zero).

 

What I will address is the claim you're making that censorship is why Japanese developers are "out" of Sony. The reason is money, not censorship. Sony's Japanese presence has collapsed against Nintendo, which predates the censorship before you list it off as a reason, and so Playstation just ain't worth it for a lot of developers putting out "very Japanese games" if you will. Still is for some of course such as those developers that actually make most of their money outside Japan. If Sony were to release say PlayStation Mors (Mors means Death) and it started taking serious market share from Nintendo then you'd see the large majority of all those developers who dropped out jump back in no matter whatever it is they have to censor.

[Undead Wolf]

1 hour ago, Rozalia1 said:

I don't think this is exactly the time to be taking up arms over the whole Japanese censorship thing. Sony is not okay with this obviously and fired him the moment they learned of it. Had they known to start with they'd obviously not had him in his position. 

 

Why not? You don't see the irony of Sony censoring games "for the sake of the children" while top executives at the company are diddling kids? And they fired him because of the bad publicity. Everything else is conjecture.

[Rozalia1]

7 minutes ago, Undead Wolf said:

Why not? You don't see the irony of Sony censoring games "for the sake of the children" while top executives at the company are diddling kids? And they fired him because of the bad publicity. Everything else is conjecture.

 

If you stretch it I guess you could call it irony but well, this guy wasn't involved in that policy. If he was then yeah, it'd be certainly something if the person in charge of such a policy was doing such a thing.

 

 

[TheAbyssWalker61]

Do you people still expects something from California? lol the hell on earth , i hope they can move HQ back to Japan again because something tells me that there are more people with this kind of degenerate bs, the more progressive the companies the more disgusting they are, really fuck SONY USA.

6 hours ago, TheMutilatingOne said:

California should join the ocean, regressive puritanical hypocrites.  Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay.

Wishing the San Andreas fault wake up to finally the entertainment west can be great again

[YonahFuriae]

Less censoring our games and more being decent and giving example yourselves. It's just like with lolicon, the same who put in jail those who are turned on by fictional characters are the pedophiles who are actually turned on by real children and actually do the real thing with them. Such hypocresy and twisted world we live in...

 

 

https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/12/07/psn-senior-vice-president-george-cacioppo-fired-after-trying-to-hook-up-with-minor/?pg=X

 

Edit: Just posted the video since it was the original source and just watched it, don't really like their methods or attitude, lol.

Edited December 6, 2021 by YonahFuriae

[Dark_Overlord]

Maybe we were misunderstanding when Sony said 'think of the children'

[MD_91]

Couldn't help but laugh that he was wearing a PS5 shirt 

[pogo_loco]

3 hours ago, MD_91 said:

Couldn't help but laugh that he was wearing a PS5 shirt 

 

Isn't the PS5 slogan "Play Has No Limits"?  Glad that turned out to be patently untrue.

 

[dakk55]

 

Had to do it, not gonna lie. It seems that nobody can go a week without some scandal popping out. I seriously hope they have him tried and sent into gen pop.

Edited December 7, 2021 by dakk55

[Fubuki]

Sony did virtue signal about the Activision situation and of course they have skeletons in their own closet. I don't think this will get that much publicity because Activision bad Sony good. How long until Sony drops the "n" in their name?
 

Spoiler

More like no age limit.

[RadiantFlamberge]

I'd rather have PSHQ go back to SIE Japan alongside its parent company, with SIEA reverting to being nothing more than the American branch. If not a move back to Japan, maybe one to Arizona or Utah?

https://www.zippia.com/advice/most-woke-states/

A ranking of how woke states are as of 19 February. I never thought of Texas as being near the middle, but it's #28 (sure shocked me! I would have thought around 40). Not that I would want SIEA to move to Texas though. As for California... #5, which doesn't surprise me. Arizona and Utah are #22 and #24. Nice and moderate.

 

This Cacioppo mess shouldn't affect Sony much. Once they knew the deal, they wasted no time doing what needed done. Activision Blizzard might have ended up with flack flying their way if they were the ones in this situation, especially with everything that had gone down on their watch not too long ago.

[MidnightDragon]

So many sick fucks in this world….

[exsentry]

On 12/6/2021 at 0:30 PM, Undead Wolf said:

 

Why not? You don't see the irony of Sony censoring games "for the sake of the children" while top executives at the company are diddling kids? And they fired him because of the bad publicity. Everything else is conjecture.

 

I'm not in the loop of the whole "Sony censoring Japanese games" thing as perhaps that gaming genre is out of my lane, but unfortunately I am afraid that you are going to find that most CEOs and company bigwigs are as devious and abhorrent as you can get. You just don't get that high on the food chain without being able to slither around a little bit and once you do have that much power and clout, it's quite easy to develop some form of a God complex. That's why I never buy into the social stances, moral high ground and slogans of these corporations send out, as they will contradict themselves in reality.

 

I do find it odd though that IGN, which reports every other meaningless infraction in the gaming world, seems to have missed this one.

[StraightVege]

Well, that was bye-bye job in record time. Seeing how the evidence was gathered by a vigilante YouTube channel, I wonder if it would be dismissed in court. Don't know much about that stuff.

 

Considering some of the painfully braindead takes I've read on here, I expected a more entertaining shitshow when opening this thread—at least one nutjob defending the guy from being "canceled" or somethin'. Instead, all I get are decrepit boomer jokes about CA becoming an island. Weak.

 

Daily reminder that rich creeps like Bobby Kotick will probably never face serious repercussions for doing worse.

[Nelson_]

On 12/7/2021 at 6:25 AM, The Titan said:

Sony did virtue signal about the Activision situation and of course they have skeletons in their own closet. I don't think this will get that much publicity because Activision bad Sony good. How long until Sony drops the "n" in their name?

 

 

This one is so weird lol 

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/691087-playstation-4/79806180

Edited December 13, 2021 by Nelson_

[TheMutilatingOne]

While we're still here, notice how there's been almost no media coverage of this.  IGN had to be publicly pressured into covering this after one of the head editors got accused of being a headass and deliberately ignoring it (presumably so they don't lose favor with the all-powerful Sony gods and their presskits/game review codes): 

Eurogamer and Kotaku are the only other major gaming sites covering this (to their credit, I despise them both) and even Newsweek (once prestigious, now clickbait tier online buzzfeed shite), a lot of other places are media silent for obvious corporate political reasons.  This isn't some no-name John Doe who's just another programmer this is a major executive at a multi-billion dollar corporation.  This feels exactly like the Randy Pitchford situation at Epic Games a few years ago where a flash drive filled with CP was left at a Medieval Times and it was promptly buried.

Edited December 13, 2021 by TheMutilatingOne