Seems like you wouldn't have to lie about this if you had actual interactions with these members before September.
isn't the quoted portion of your analysis I left out above a very specific 100% unsubstantiated and highly speculative assumption?
I.E. you are painting a picture using an emotional/personal bias/presumption; rather than showing an actual clear chain of evidence that proves a fact instead of merely suggesting a possibility that lies buried in a sea of bullshit being thrown around between you guys.
Try and make it so that people not knee deep in this for so many years can easily and fully see the accusations being truth; not just assumptions or blank accusations based on the feelings of Betas.
That quote you rely on is very muddy water for sure; as an outsider: I see correlation absent of causation... I.E. assumption.
How would you like it if you were thrown in prison or deported because someone assumed something about you?
Example of a scenario for a red trust I have personally given:
The last dev I red tagged was because he was part of a dev team/project that screwed a bunch of investors, and did not put ANY effort into fulfilling those promises from what I can tell after over 30 min of looking, or even trying to vindicate himself from the catastrophe by trying to get a hold of the persons responsible on the project, or anything public even close to that notion. To me this was a clean cut of someone who needs a red tag, because others may be ripped off by something he is attached to in the future. Logic wins.
His idea of "fixing" the possibility for others to be screwed (having me remove my neg flag) is to plead with me to join him on some random telegram or some other crazy places to try and convince me he is a good guy. If he truly was not connected with the dishonesty, or any of the like... there would be a whole chain of public posts and words from him about trying to help people find the ones responsible for the theft/lies, hand out contact info, etc etc etc.... not just stay silent and all the sudden wonder why you would get such a mark on your profile after working as a dev for a project that kept promising the moon but never fulfilled any promises. This is why he still had red trust from ME.
All he needed to do was point me towards specific posts where he actively attempted to be one of the screwed parties in some very sincere and honest ways..... But so far: nothing but him trying to convince me to go out of my way to jump through his hoops (random telegram channels, etc). Nope. That is never gonna happen.
All it would have taken is SINCERITY in ANY of his dealings since to be obvious and no complaints of trusted/high rank members (as per above) and it would have thrown my trust tag into question instantly.... maybe he got screwed by getting hired in to work on x portion of the project.
To end:
I see nothing obvious here in what you guys accuse TEC of. seriously.
Convince me.... with logic.... its not hard.
Leave emotion at the door. It has no power in the world of logical analysis.
