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>> Freenet ... which has led to conviction by police, unfortunately.

> Just for using it? That's crazy! Do you have a source?

Hm, I admit fault, hastily writing the above reply. I do not have sources for actual convictions, so what I wrote is not validated.

  s/has led to/may risk/
Source[1] that I read prior to my comment, which is under the thread[2] "Suspect jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives". The discussion was along the lines of, if you have encrypted data, and the state "knows" it has illegal content, your not decrypting it makes you liable for it. Thus the extrapolation to use of Freenet, which forwards encrypted content from others, and is heavily littered with CP[3], according to HN commenters.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11590880

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11590421

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081364



Redacted case notes from a Freeneter acting as an expert witness on a case: https://asksteved.com/freenet-case/case-redacted.pdf




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