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Wait a minute. They got caught because Adobe saw the pictures they were editing in Photoshop and called the police. Think about that for a bit.

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I'm still confused about that.

I'm assuming the bad guys used a cloud service in the photoshop. Most major tech companies have matching algos to flag scrub that shit from their servers because they do not want to get caught up in an investigation.

What I don't understand is what the hell they were even photoshopping to begin with. The story doesn't make it clear why what they were photoshopping got them flagged by Adobe.

My best guess is they mixed in known illegal content (that Adobe would be able to flag) with the photoshops and it was stored in the cloud and got their account flagged.

I know the, "well, if they weren't doing something illegal, they would have nothing to worry about" argument could be used, here. But, "freedom of speech", as we are finding out these days, does not really exist. Speaking out against your government is definitely getting folks in trouble in Australia and Canada. Imagine Adobe making an agreement with any of these folks and flagging memes? Then they send them to the police so they can "round up the Nazis." Because everyone they don't like is called a Nazi so they have an excuse to abuse their human rights.

So, yeah, this whole situation is a bit off. If they can flag illegal porn content, they can flag anything. That's the problem.

Glad bad guys got caught with their own stupidity. But not glad that we live in a shitty tech dystopia.

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Yeah, the fact that Adobe observed their crimes is fucked up. It's always "think of the children" used as the foot in the door, then they expand what they're looking for to general wrongthink.

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They also tried to encrypt it using software called "keepmydatasafe" which got decoded by law enforcement.

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100% spot on and I forgot that angle. This is important. It always starts with "think of the children." That's how we got these fucked up COVID-19 policies.

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That is what first caught my attention.

[–] • 3 pts

Should have used GIMP

[–] • 1 pt

Pedos everywhere. If you keep listening he gets into details about how police/courts lost their hard drives with all the evidence on it.

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And to think they'll cost hundred of thousands just to be kept alive in a cell and for what? What's the actual point? Why should they even be released in the wild after that, especially after spending decades behind bars? It's not like this is going to result in any sort of improvement

Yeah they'll suffer and have to live through it that's the only upside, but I'm talking about the cost here. If the point is just to make them pay through suffering for what they did, there are much cheaper solutions, such as a hole, a big hole and you leave them to starve to death in there with other maniacs like them at the bottom of it. It's not going to last very long, it's going to be very painful, and all that at a very low cost https://youtu.be/cAacE5ukzrs?t=202

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Something something life is sacred or some shit. All over the world people are jailed instead of... Alternatives. Maybe because there is money in incarceration and the proprietors of evil in this world love a sure thing.

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>Maybe because there is money in incarceration and the proprietors of evil in this world love a sure thing.

Banks love to lend money because that's what banking is all about, so there's that. That's also one reason why we have crazy budget spending on stupid shits all over the place, see , as long as the debt is served that's all what matters

But I digress, because there's more to it than "just that", because it fails to explain why the notion of "anything but killing those fucks" itself gets a pass, in the first place. After all, no matter what's the "banking incentive" there are ideas you just can't sell to any random ethnic group/society, example; you won't sell pork to muslims, don't even try, you won't even make them pack pig meat or accept a pig farm let alone a pig meat processing factory on their soil, fugget' bout it.

So, one could place the blame on christianity, culturally speaking, with this notion of redemption, everybody gets a second chance to infinity sort of stuff essentially, and "life is sacred" as in we're all made in the image of god etc...

>Something something life is sacred or some shit.

Yeah

Life has to be sacred otherwise you and I are just products ultimately, cattle at best. And I also believe that, there has to be a "red line", beyond which there's no more nothing, it's breach of contract; you negate the other you negate yourself. I mean offenses deemed worth more than 20 years behind bars, especially when there's no room for doubt, give me a fucking break. Just dump the motherfucker in the hole ajnd call it a day