Oddbean new post about login | logout Based on the registry and the charges it seems like the young lady in question would’ve been 13 when you were almost 24 years old, is that correct?
She was 14, and was 23 at the time of the crime. It wasn’t a simple “oops.” It was being too drunk to think about it or care about consequences. There’s nothing there to make it not wrong. It was wrong.
I think I see where you were getting the ages from. The registry has it as aggravated - I was not convicted of that. That was in error, but was the original charge. It was lowered to simple for the conviction.
Classic false charges with no consequences for the cops/prosecutors
I’m sorry but a 14 year old getting inebriated and having sex with a couple in their 20’s shouldn’t be ok. SameCat and his spouse should’ve acted like adults and not let a young teenager party with them. I don’t think the cops and/or prosecutors were in the wrong here. Neither are the people doxxing SameCat and connecting his anonymous profiles where in some he has recently posted neo-nazi, homophobic, and perverse posts. Everyone wants an open public square for freedom of speech but forget in the days of public squares people were openly shamed for inappropriate behavior.
Also let me note that we are only able to go off what SameCat has shared and what’s on the sex offender registry. We most certainly do not have the full story.
I don't see much reason to question the story we have. It might not be true but reacting to it as it's presented to me is basically all the time it's worth in my view. There's no big picture impact. Let me also clarify my statement on wanting to make the guy's life worse - it's fair to have some antipathy for perverts who gross you out, and more antipathy for neo Nazis, but there should also be respect for people's rights and antipathy for the state that files false charges regularly and puts people on a sex offender registry without protecting them from worse criminals
Neo Nazis and homophobia aren't good but it sounds like the girl consented and I don't like people who would be so grossed out by this guy they want to actively make his life worse while war criminals aren't voted out of office. I also read that it was a bridge user from the "fediverse" or whatever, not an actual nostr user, so your "days of public squares" analogy only makes sense if I'm forgetting the part where anonymous people sent holograms that could freely deliver their harassment without the need to face responses. I think if you want to use the censorship resistance of nostr to dox people on nostr, you should actually use nostr to the fullest instead of just taking the most convenient part of it for an isolated authoritarian worldview.