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Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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It's not. I come from that area. He's telling the truth.

Yes. That is also why we need to keep Kosovo out of the EU until this has been fixed - which I'm pretty sure won't happen any time soon :(.

Well we first need to fix the tensions with Serbia, which is impossible.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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I stopped running a Tor non-exit node from home a few years back, because a lot of websites and platforms blacklist any IP associated with Tor. I couldn't actually watch anything on Hulu for years (though they were still happy to take my money, which I refused to give them) because of this. Running a tor node is a thankless thing one can choose to do. Nevertheless I did for years. I don't do it anymore.

I tried, after 2 months my VPS provider basically said "either you close it down or we close you down" as they were getting requests to take it down (IIRC DMCA or other bullshit like that)

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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The eternal struggle. Information wants to be free, and then people use those freedoms to do the most screwed up things imaginable, and people like this pay the price. It’s a damn shame how the original cyberpunk dream played out. We could’ve had a world where companies couldn’t do anything about people using their ideas. Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators…

It was bullshit from the start

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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post #43

Why don’t we put Tor nodes in space? Seems like a few hundred micro satellites could circumvent sovereignty this way.

It would probably be easier to leave an exit node on a barge in international waters to be honest.

and provide internet to who ? Exit node still needs ISP to connect to.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Corruption is also common practice within the EU (see: Eva Kaili), most of the upper EU just hides it better while pointing fingers at "unaligned" states, inside and outside of the EU. If Von der Leyen wasn’t corrupt, I’m sure she wouldn’t have any problem handing over her texts.

> wouldn’t have any problem handing over her texts This is the same non-reason as is being brought up with cameras filming you 24/7 etc. 'You dont have to worry if you have nothing to hide' ... It's an invasion of privacy, and it is worth fighting against that.

Being forced to share correspondence related to your job as a public official seems different to exposing your entire life to a camera.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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I stopped running a Tor non-exit node from home a few years back, because a lot of websites and platforms blacklist any IP associated with Tor. I couldn't actually watch anything on Hulu for years (though they were still happy to take my money, which I refused to give them) because of this. Running a tor node is a thankless thing one can choose to do. Nevertheless I did for years. I don't do it anymore.

I still do it, and have been for over a decade, and I'm rarely bothered by it. I think I get a few more captchas because of it, and I can't load https://www.investopedia.com, which I would frequently like to, but that's it.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Corruption is also common practice within the EU (see: Eva Kaili), most of the upper EU just hides it better while pointing fingers at "unaligned" states, inside and outside of the EU. If Von der Leyen wasn’t corrupt, I’m sure she wouldn’t have any problem handing over her texts.

> wouldn’t have any problem handing over her texts This is the same non-reason as is being brought up with cameras filming you 24/7 etc. 'You dont have to worry if you have nothing to hide' ... It's an invasion of privacy, and it is worth fighting against that.

Was she acting as a private individual or as a government official?

Government has ZERO right to privacy; government agents in their capacity have ZERO right to privacy.

If a government agent uses a private account to do government business, then a) they should be fired/ removed and charged for trying to hide that business and b) those accounts should be turned over to the government, redacted of anything not related to the government business, and everything else made public.

A private individual has a right to privacy. Government, including anyone acting as its agent, do not.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Andrew Tate said essentially the same. Turns out corrupt police don't like it when someone brags with that fact. Not that I'd shed any tear for Tate or the other guy though, both deserve all they get and more.

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"especially when we offend"

This is a fundamental premise of freedom of speech and a large reason as to why it exists.

For some reason your comment was flagged, I vouched and voted it up.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Quite logical, same in France and likely many countries; if you run a Tor exit node (or any type of open proxy), you get visited by the police if someone does something wrong on your exit node. Otherwise what could happen is that you run a Tor node and use it as an excuse for any crime you do.

Couldn't you say the same for every coffee shop that gives random people Wi-Fi access?

Of course. But "someone sit there for an hour downloading torrents" is not something they'd bother to chase vs "this guy seems to be downloading 854 torrents in last 24 hours"

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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> Ultimately what drove me away was the literal flood of cp that was always right next to anything to do with tor, whonix, or anonymity in general. As a teen around 2003 I hosted a freenet-node (freenetproject.org). It generated 1TByte/month which I believe was a lot for the time. I shot it down and never came back, because the only things that ever loaded was cp and Chechnya rape and torture videos. Its not a networ…

How do you know what was uploaded, let alone that those were the only things uploaded? If I remember Freenet’s model correctly, files were distributed across the network as encrypted fragments and no one knew what exactly was being shared on his own node.

Run a DC++ client connected to some major hubs and snoop on the queries that people search for and you will lose all hope for humanity.
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