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Mallory | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 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.
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Mallory | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 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.
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whoeverlovesDigit | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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
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island | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 They not like us.
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nobody | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 I don’t think I sugar coated anything, nor did I dodge responsibility, nor did I say it was “ok.”  Quite the opposite. I hope that was clear.
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whoeverlovesDigit | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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.