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

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Post by mvanbaak »

Longhanks wrote: post #131
CSMastermind wrote: post #84

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I've heard similar things about Romania and Bulgaria which are both EU countries.

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.

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

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Post by jrflowers »

dudeinjapan wrote: post #153
mschuster91 wrote: post #142

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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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Can you elaborate on how you know that the human trafficking charges are bogus?

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

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Post by OfSanguineFire »

noAnswer wrote: post #164
sillysaurusx wrote: post #34

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…

> 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.

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

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Post by skilled »

dale_glass wrote: post #75
skilled wrote: post #23

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It sounds like you have never been to a country where money can buy anything you want, including freedom. Many such countries in the world.

Such countries exist, but as this case and Andrew Tate show, actually putting it in such frank terms may not be a good idea. Yeah, maybe you can buy yourself out of trouble. But I suspect in many such cases the people involved prefer to be bought quietly. Make things too uncomfortably public or too embarrassing and the same people might well throw the book at you.

I don’t know the specifics of his case but it is my understanding that EU isn’t as easily bought as South America or Southeast Asia for example.

The latter has a system that doesn’t “include” foreigners, whereas someplace like Romania is a lot more Westernized and offering a bribe carries a lot more risk.

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

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Post by OfSanguineFire »

mhitza wrote: post #113
CSMastermind wrote: post #84

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I've heard similar things about Romania and Bulgaria which are both EU countries.

Romania has high levels of corruption, but when we entered the EU we had high levels of overt corruption. I'll never forget during the presidential elections of early 2010s (or around that time) (we joined EU in 2007) when a member of the loosing party (which would then become our prime minister), Victor Ponta, stated frankly, in an interview, that they lost because his party stole fewer votes (bribing the poor with…

Whenever foreigners bring corruption in Romania, I try to emphasize that while it exists, it is no longer very visible unless you are in fairly high-level business and politics. There was a time when everyone on the bus had to contribute 5€ when crossing the border, so that the customs officials wouldn’t go through everyone’s luggage. A time when you couldn’t register a sole proprietorship without at least offering the clerk some chocolate or whatever as a token bribe. But that all disappeared about 2006 and life in Romania is little different from Western EU states.

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

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Post by RajT88 »

anthk wrote: post #177
haakon wrote: post #140

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Generated CSAM is equally illegal as "real" CSAM in many countries, such as Norway. Here, even fictional descriptions of such material in written form is illegal.

Even Lolita from Nabokov? Because that book depicted that as joking about the reader and on male society in general, as there was no actual erotism on anything but the narrator's "mind"/protagonist. Similar on how people got Starship Troopers wrong. Is not about cheering fascism, but to ridicule it.

> Similar on how people got Starship Troopers wrong. Is not about cheering fascism, but to ridicule it.

Well - the film also had a disconnect with the book on the topic of fascism. The book was more on the pro-fascism side.

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

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Post by rchaud »

beebmam wrote: post #168
codedokode wrote: post #156

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Bribes don't work like a shop where you can come from the street and buy something. You need to have connections first.

That's for the discount

It's to ensure that someone in the network has pre-screened you, and that you understand the rules about how the bribe is to be paid.

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

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Post by tekla »

throw0101a wrote: post #169
tekla wrote: post #148

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CP is disgusting and everything, but I'm kinda weirded out about thought crime. If no harm is being done, not even indirectly to anyone else, why is it a crime? It's not illegal to write a fanfic that you keep to yourself about all the weird ways that you want to torture and kill someone.

It is not without debate: * https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/djls/vol25/iss1/2/ And as my updated/edited comment mention, Canada is not unique in this regard: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_child_pornography * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn... Going back to Canada, some cases: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography_laws_in_Cana... * https://en.wikipedia.o…

I'm sort of confused by these rulings. So people got convicted for possessing loli manga/similar stuff that has no relation to real life at all.

I understand that it can be illegal at the State level, and that its a grey area at the federal level. What I don't get is the disconnect between these rulings and whatever is available on the clearnet.

We're not talking onion sites. Reddit, Twitter, 4chan, pixv, tumblr, Patreon whatever sites that you can just go to that shows up the front page of Google. They all contain similar content and almost none of it is taken down for illegality, at most because someone thought it was too ick and Ad money, or posted in a non-r18 area.

Even fucking 4chan is incredibly strict about ban hammering/deleting anything that is close to CP

Genshin Impact and Blue Archive are not popular because they are good games.

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