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Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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It’s encrypted, encrypted many times over, it’s completely anonymous… as long as you’re staying inside the network. An exit node connects to the regular internet and that’s what’s going to start showing up on logs. This was completely secure for the people actually dealing in cp.
I can’t believe this stuck, it’s the equivalent of arresting a business owner because someone distributed cp while connected to their Wi-Fi.
CP laws (in the US and probably other places) fall under a doctrine called strict liability, which basically means that you're guilty regardless of intent or even knowledge of an offense.
It's fucked.
There isn't a crime worse than hurting children. Does that mean we should allow law enforcement infinity leeway to punish these crimes and persue the offenders? I hate to ever give law enforcement any leeway as abuse is so common, but if someone is hurting children I don't care how you stop it.
Is hosting a tor exit nods with the knowledge that doing so might help pedophiles hurting children? That feels like too many layers to me. Too esoteric.
Is this satire? Because that's exactly the excuse government has been giving for hundreds of years, to take your freedoms away.
It's never about the children. The Catholic church operating with near total immunity, after all these millennia of abuse, is proof of that.
You're right and I agree completely. My ACAB hat slips when they bring up kinds. Which is, of course, their intent.