Timur Gareyev Accused of Sexual Misconduct

https://lichess.org/blog/ZNTniBEAACEAJZTn/breaking-the-silence

Apparently, Timur Gareyev had been sexually harassing many women at many tournaments. This explains why his USCF was suspended for some time.

No

why is ur pfp black?

bro is making blogs on lichess

is ur club already dead?

this isn't my blog

******Evidence******* or it didn't happen

Many are really confused about the principle of "innocent until proven guilty". It only applies to criminal trials when the liberty (and sometimes even life) of the defendant is at stake. That's when proving the guilt beyond reasonable doubt is paramount.

Outside of criminal procedures this principle is not and should not be universally applicable. To give you a simple example: imagine I have a birthday party and a very good friend of mine approaches me telling me that another person who is also invited to the party has done something very nasty to her (sexual or not, does not matter). She is asking me to uninvite that person lest she do not come herself. I've known her for a long time and I have a complete trust in her. I am not going to ask her to present evidence that will prove her accusation beyond reasonable doubt. Uninviting someone from a birthday party is not the same as putting someone in prison.

And neither is banning someone from a chess organization.

You can read the actions of all the accused in detail on lichess' home page blog. I recommend every otb tournament player read this article. Men & women, young ladies in particular. Very informative with pictures.

Do you support the complete removal of defamation laws? For instance I should have the right to accuse you to be a paedophile network operative without any proof (because if I were forced to provide proofs, chlidren would not be protected enough). You'd be fired from your job overnight, you'd lose your children custody, also your bank account possibly but this is FINE EVEN IF YOU'RE INNOCENT because CHILDREN ARE MORE "PROTECTED" this way.
What is your opinion on this.

The lichess page doesn't feature details at all. There are testimonies like "women said this or that" only. No evidence, no concrete facts.

lichess does what it wants. They have a real kangaroo court when it comes to flagging/banning players and feel no compunction to show what data they used to make their decision their appeal process is the equivalent of begging them to change their mind. I had 2800 games of 15 10 under the handle "darkunorthodox" and out of nowhere they decided that i was a cheater lmao. They keep flagging every subsequent account i make, even with VPN dont ever reach even 200 games. a Mod clearly has a a vendetta agaisnt me and recognizes me by my openings and manually bans me. 
i would love to play here if, we actually had a good 15 10 pool with strong players but we dont. 
As for the accusations, there is a certain level of organizational arrogance in trying to strong arm the USCF into giving greater punishments to Gareyev. What sort of message does that give? That the USCF saw the light on this issue thanks to lichess?
someone build a more transparent and less politicized version of lichess please. they behaving like the chess mafia.

the principle extends far beyond the court system. it is an epistemological principle from which the law is the concrete application. How applicable it is, is proportional to the reasonable doubt that can be applied to someone being guilty of something.
notice that in your own example, who gets to be invited to the party is solely at the discretion of the party host regardless of whether has good , bad or even any reason at all to invite or not to invite someone.

No, I do not support removal of defamation laws. If Gareyev maintains that he's innocent, he's well within his right to sue his accusers.

By the way, accusations of child trafficking would immediately trigger criminal procedure, so the high standards of proof beyond reasonable doubt would be applicable in your poor taste example. In fact, you would probably be called in as a witness and have to testify under oath. And if police figured out that your accusation was a sham, you would be in a lot of trouble without even being sued for defamation.

Why can't chess players just not be such creeps?