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Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

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988 points heavyset_go | 2 comments | 16 Sep 25 12:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source
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dvrj101 ◴[16 Sep 25 12:45 UTC] No.45261476[source]▶
they are trying to set precedent. This can kill TOR or other privacy related services in USA easily in current environment.
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nikanj ◴[16 Sep 25 13:14 UTC] No.45261813[source]▶
That's not the key precedent they are setting. They are working on a much more important case: Making the population understand that disobedience will result in punishment
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cbg0 ◴[16 Sep 25 13:18 UTC] No.45261850[source]▶
Isn't this the goal of most laws?
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1. nikanj ◴[16 Sep 25 13:18 UTC] No.45261858[source]▶
The goal of the laws is that you have to obey the laws. Here the case is that you have to obey the people holding the badges.
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2. potato3732842 ◴[16 Sep 25 13:45 UTC] No.45262206[source]▶
There's plenty of laws they write that they know the population can't reasonably comply with and give the government discretionary power to screw people. And then there's more laws that just give the government enforcement arm discretionary power to choose whether the law is applicable or exercise unilateral judgement regarding whether compliance is satisfactory.

Your local zoning code is probably chock full of them. And if not there then your local stormwater/runoff rules probably have a bunch of examples too.

Federal stuff is much more highly litigated so you don't see as much of it there. State is a middle ground.