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

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989 points heavyset_go | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 12:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
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I_Write_It ◴[16 Sep 25 12:51 UTC] No.45261548[source]▶
This is unbelievable! How in the world! Why they do that ?! Because the police were frustrated????!
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tamimio ◴[16 Sep 25 12:59 UTC] No.45261624[source]▶
You clearly never seen police dashcam videos in the US. Besides the corruption and stops for "hunt missions", a lot of times it's simply because you shattered their ego, even with a simple laugh: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NqJdt9_1XSw
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1. 77pt77 ◴[16 Sep 25 13:32 UTC] No.45262038[source]▶
The court did reject qualified immunity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isYZoFrIeo0

However, the poor guy only defeated criminal charges on appeal!