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Apparently the dev embedded child porn in the browser itself, as an Easter egg? WTAF...

127361 3y ago
There could be so many places where this is happening, and it's going undetected, until law enforcement happens to seize some unfortunate individual's computer and child porn is found on it. Distributing or creating such material (with real children) is rightfully illegal. Possession with intent to distribute, as well. But absolutely not simple possession. These crazy laws need to go, it's a modern 21st Century form of morality policing[1]. Such morality policing is not much more that primally driven primitive behavior, akin to which our tribal ancestors carried out, and coming from a part of our brain that is thousands of years old. It does not belong in a modern technologically based society. And the internet, with its fundamental lack of privacy, has enabled such morality policing on a shocking scale. Such material can be easily generated locally with AI with no risk of detection by law enforcement, and planted into people's web browser caches or other temporary storage so easily. The government is basically giving any sophisticated hacker or state actor (e.g. Russia) a push-button way of destroying any political opponent with ease. If you live in a Western country and criticize a Russian political figure too much, well the FSB (the successor to the KGB) is going to put child porn on your computer. They've already been caught doing precisely that. [2] So it's especially important in this current geopolitical situation we're in. 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231193694 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135485652311936... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat#History
- 127361 3y ago
  And I got flagged for speaking out against this ridiculous moral orthodoxy. Good. I'll just take my speech to another site, before I get banned from this Hacker News completely.
EA-3167 3y ago
Oof, and that's a crime with strict liability.
- 127361 3y ago
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- 127361 3y ago
  The worst thing would be if some kind of virus or malware infected millions of computers or smartphones with such material. What would law enforcement do then? They can't arrest everyone under such strict liability pretenses. And it's not impossible for a state actor such as Russia to do this....
chupapimunyenyo 3y ago
there's 0 proof on this
9beg 3y ago
It wasn't child porn that was on the browser, it was just an image of "yiff" or furry porn. The browser just had an suggestive bunny picture easter egg on that and had this thoughts about anti circumcision. Not too sure if the browser was update recently but I will say that thorium is a decently developed browser with chromium.
- jnrk 3y ago
  > The browser just had an suggestive bunny picture easter egg on that and had this thoughts about anti circumcision If you visit the link posted in the comments above, you will see that it wasn't only thoughts about circumcision but also pictures.

There could be so many places where this is happening, and it's going undetected, until law enforcement happens to seize some unfortunate individual's computer and child porn is found on it. Distributing or creating such material (with real children) is rightfully illegal. Possession with intent to distribute, as well. But absolutely not simple possession. These crazy laws need to go, it's a modern 21st Century form of morality policing[1]. Such morality policing is not much more that primally driven primitive behavior, akin to which our tribal ancestors carried out, and coming from a part of our brain that is thousands of years old. It does not belong in a modern technologically based society. And the internet, with its fundamental lack of privacy, has enabled such morality policing on a shocking scale. Such material can be easily generated locally with AI with no risk of detection by law enforcement, and planted into people's web browser caches or other temporary storage so easily. The government is basically giving any sophisticated hacker or state actor (e.g. Russia) a push-button way of destroying any political opponent with ease. If you live in a Western country and criticize a Russian political figure too much, well the FSB (the successor to the KGB) is going to put child porn on your computer. They've already been caught doing precisely that. [2] So it's especially important in this current geopolitical situation we're in. 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565231193694 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135485652311936... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat#History

127361 3y ago
And I got flagged for speaking out against this ridiculous moral orthodoxy. Good. I'll just take my speech to another site, before I get banned from this Hacker News completely.

EA-3167 3y ago

Oof, and that's a crime with strict liability.

127361 3y ago
[flagged]
127361 3y ago
The worst thing would be if some kind of virus or malware infected millions of computers or smartphones with such material. What would law enforcement do then? They can't arrest everyone under such strict liability pretenses. And it's not impossible for a state actor such as Russia to do this....

chupapimunyenyo 3y ago

there's 0 proof on this

9beg 3y ago

It wasn't child porn that was on the browser, it was just an image of "yiff" or furry porn. The browser just had an suggestive bunny picture easter egg on that and had this thoughts about anti circumcision. Not too sure if the browser was update recently but I will say that thorium is a decently developed browser with chromium.

jnrk 3y ago
> The browser just had an suggestive bunny picture easter egg on that and had this thoughts about anti circumcision If you visit the link posted in the comments above, you will see that it wasn't only thoughts about circumcision but also pictures.