• x4740N@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    It’s fucked up that anyone can do this and ruin a person’s life

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        9 months ago

        This actually did happen and that’s probably what the green text is based off of.

        I remember reading the article a few years ago, linked off of Reddit iirc, so if someone wants to go wade in those waters again you’ll probably find it

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          9 months ago

          Now that you mention it, it does sound familiar. I’m not sure if it’s a constructed memory on my part though.

          Given that people have done things like spash acid on their former partners’ faces and say things like “if I can’t have you then no one can” then I’m not terribly surprised that someone might try something like this.

          But you’re right, in general I don’t trust green texts as truth. This could easily just be someone summarizing a story that happened as a green text though (which is a common thing).

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            9 months ago

            Advice after the fact is a useless lecture, a form of victim blaming.

            Saying “if you hadn’t done x, crime y wouldn’t have happened” to the victim of a crime is the very definition of victim blaming.

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              9 months ago

              OOP isn’t in this thread. I don’t think the user you’re chastising intended to give OOP advice, the advice was for the rest of us.

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                9 months ago

                Still textbook victim blaming rather than the benevolent “advice” you seem adamant to reframe it as.

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                    9 months ago

                    Nope. But “you wouldn’t have been a victim if not for trusting your apparent friend” very much is.

                    People trust their friends with their laptops without being victimized every fucking day.

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      10 months ago

      Even scarier that malware can do this and use your device as a distribution node

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        10 months ago

        You could ask Jordan Peterson

        I’d link the tweet where he said that it’s “impossible to find child pornography here anymore” as a way to pretend that Musk fixed Twitter, but I couldn’t find it and now my search algorithm is probably fucked after trying several different queries with the words “Jordan Peterson child porn” in them 🤦😂

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        10 months ago

        I mean, hopefully you also have not tried because before finding things, you might find hints to find things. What i am trying to say is, there are many bad things that you will only find once you seek it out, but once you do it is not hard (enough).

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      10 months ago

      If you read the post it says the cop didn’t buy it and anon got charged themselves instead.