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Re: Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces

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Tor browser. The proud enabler of child porn industry.

I'm pretty sure there's more child porn on P2P networks, Usenet and the just over private internet forums/sites than on TOR.

My point was, just because there exists one (perfectly valid) objection to Tor, it doesn't mean the project as a whole is negative and should be shut down (what the parent seems to be implying about this email provider).

Re: Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces

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I think it sucks that all ~65,000 other people have their data seized because of him, though. The fellow running the service ran it on a German hosting service ( https://www.hetzner.de ), and not his bedroom. Full cooperation was provided by everyone, following in the letter and spirit of the law. It just really sucks that the German authorities took it upon themselves to take the entire thing.

He managed it from his bedroom.

If I telecommute, I manage hundreds of servers from my bedroom. I don't see the issue here.

Re: Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces

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Nobody is accusing him of anything other than hosting some poor joke domains. However, his domain was the one that the emails threatening several school districts came from. And while I'm sure they don't think he's the culprit, his server would still have some evidence on it.

Point of order: gratuitous use of the word "nigger" is not a joke. Jokes are funny, or at least attempt to be funny. This doesn't qualify. This is something other than a joke.

we need a HN safe space comment section where these bad words can't hurt us! #HNlivesmatter

Re: Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces

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He managed it from his bedroom.

If I telecommute, I manage hundreds of servers from my bedroom. I don't see the issue here.

I also manage servers from my bedroom. If I set up a cock-based email service from my bedroom, I wouldn't expect to receive the same credibility as the likes of gmail or hotmail.

Re: Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces

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Tor browser. The proud enabler of child porn industry.

I'm pretty sure there's more child porn on P2P networks, Usenet and the just over private internet forums/sites than on TOR.

I would bet that maybe not, but a disproportionate number of darknet websites is.

P(darknet | child porn) might be low, as you are suggesting, but P(child porn | darknet) >>> P(child porn | clearweb), in orders of magnitude.

Re: Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces

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Are you saying that one should be allowed to threaten to kill people in one country from another, and not be held accountable?

No, he definitely was not saying that.

Really? Cause that sounds exactly like what he was saying.

Re: Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces

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Point of order: gratuitous use of the word "nigger" is not a joke. Jokes are funny, or at least attempt to be funny. This doesn't qualify. This is something other than a joke.

It doesn't qualify because you said so, really? This is something else than a joke, because? Speculation and assertion is not an argument. If a statement is a joke is not defined whether someone finds it is funny or not, but by its intention. We don't all laught at the same jokes do we? In this case, we don't know the intention behind it, or at least our two comments didn't reveal it. (It is so sad to see preconditio…

He doesn't seem to be serious, but I don't think one could really call the domain a "joke". It's using a word who's sole connotation is as a racial slur.

And i don't see why there shouldn't be impulsive disagreement, considering how terrible the word is.

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