• Gramba
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    02 years ago

    The feds did come after him for other computer crimes (unrelated to those views) and he hung himself and investigation into him stopped at that point.

    • genoxidedev1
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      -12 years ago

      Eh, didn’t know the full story behind him (or even that he hung himself for that matter).

      I’m not gonna pretend to have sympathy for him if he was guilty of possessing the stuff that he was advocating for.

      • exscape
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        12 years ago

        He was a big fan of freedom of speech of all kinds. That doesn’t in any way suggest he possessed child porn. Read the entire page and it becomes quite clear that he is literally just listing laws that make certain kinds of data illegal.

        I strongly disagree that CSAM should be legal, but the point that honest people have their lives ruined by being accused of possessing it, or by having normal images of their children, is certainly true.

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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        12 years ago

        But you have no problem creating judgement about the guy without knowing anything about him.

        • genoxidedev1
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          -12 years ago

          I read what he posted on his website. I know enough to make that judgement. I know me AND you would have said the exact same thing about everyone else that posted that shit on their website.

          • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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            12 years ago

            No, you and I are different. I read what a 16 year old kid wrote AND I read the article that he linked to that explains why he was saying what he said.

            You are basing your entire view of an adult based on what they wrote as a kid, without reading further to see why they had that opinion at the time. And you’re completely fine judging them that way.