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Where do you live that you can be arrested for someone sending you illegal material you didn't request?!

• jeroenhd 5y ago
  Possession if child porn is illegal in many countries. If digital wallets convey any kind of ownership (which anyone using cryptocurrency or NFTs would argue in favour of) then that implies receiving child porn makes you be in possession of illegal material. I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure not reporting such content to the police immediately would be a crime, and even if you do the right thing the police might still suspect you if you're unlucky. Someone malicious could definitely send a collection of child porn through the mail and report you the second it arrives. If they can time it right, you could definitely be in trouble and the police would likely take all of your digital storage and search for more. It's a lot harder to do such things anonymously in the real world, where security cameras and physical mail boxes are a thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone would actually pull off something awful like this. Of course, the police probably won't arrest you if you immediately report the illegal contents and hand over the evidence (or destroy the evidence without involving the police), but that's not as easy with the blockchain. Transferring the NFT out of your account would likely involve paying some kind of transfer fee (ethereum gas is quite expensive) and the police aren't going to pay that for you. You won't be finding or suing the sender of the child porn either, because this stuff isn't hard to do anonymously. Even if you do manage to transfer the illegal content out of your wallet, the blockchain will forever keep a public record of the content you once owned, so even if you do everything right the accusation of paedophilia will forever be easy to make.