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[tor-talk] Raid of LFM studio over supposed access of onion site by unknown party



I thought I'd just bring to the attention of the Tor community a very public (it was recorded and those involved have spoken about it) raid that occurred upon which the FBI listed in the warrant an onion site that was connected to what appears to have been Playpen where child porn was being distributed by the FBI. In this incident they placed bits of code on users of the sites systems which enabled them to identify the user's IP.

While it is believe that the home and studio that was raided did not contain any child pornography the objective seems to have been to discredit a very public critic of the FBI: Ian Freeman.

http://freekeene.com/2016/03/22/news-and-blog-coverage-of-fbi-raid/
https://www.freetalklive.com/archives

This appears to be a direct attack on political persons in the libertarian community. It is not the first attack. Local government raided the KAT (Keen Activist Center, which I believe is the same place) a few years back and there have been many other legal attacks on Ian and other libertarians in the community. Including an attack on James Cleveland for recording the police (he won) and Rich Paul (he was arrested for selling pot, but the actual amount was insignificant, and immediately tried to get him to be an informant on the KAT, he turned that down and went to trial, and got a year, but risked spending as much as 100 years in doing so). Among many other legal shenanigans... all for being peaceful activists...

Anyway- I thought people may want to keep an eye on this. People wonder why we need Tor. Well, not only do we need it overseas we need it right here in the United States. If you speak publicly against the mainstream or against the FBI's choices (like distributing child porn, which two weeks earlier was covered by the show, and they were critical of the FBI in doing this) you might just get raided. I am not aware of the FBI actually raiding anybody else in connection to Playpen (or users anyway, yet) so it seems quite politically motivated. I'm also a little doubtful there ever actually was a connection here. Somebody 'accidentally' misread something and testified to get the warrant in order to discredit them or similar is my suspicion right now. They'll probably find something, but it won't be child porn, and even if they did, I'd call it suspect, given all the facts. The FBI aren't angels and play dirty all the time. Yet- we are suppose to trust them, the courts, etc and the convictions (or guilty pleas when they twist your arm so there are no other options of defense).


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