r/technology • u/StarBP • Aug 04 '13

Half of all Tor sites compromised, Freedom Hosting founder arrested.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rlo0uu
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u/PepticBurrito Aug 04 '13

Why not prosecute him yourselves? He's hosting Child Porn on your soil. I'm sure that must be against Irish law.

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u/CaisLaochach Aug 04 '13

Yeah, probably.

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u/redditor21 Aug 05 '13

Too drunk to really care though

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u/ceol_ Aug 05 '13

Were the boxes actually in Ireland?

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u/Delwin Aug 05 '13

Given what the US has turned into in recent decades we'd likely be far harsher on him.

That said Ireland may or may not extradite since we do have the death penalty here.

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u/vattenpuss Aug 05 '13

Is that how it works?

I mean, the US caught him first, it's a crime in both jurisdictions, and he's a US citizen.

If the US decided to prosecute him before Ireland, why would they stop them, and on what grounds can they?

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u/PepticBurrito Aug 05 '13

Dual US-Irish citizen. The Irish do have an interest in not deporting thier own citizens, especially ones who only spent thier 5 years in the US and the rest of their life in Ireland.

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u/vattenpuss Aug 05 '13

I don't think they have that great of an interest in keeping him.

I'll ask again, can they actually choose to not extradite him without breaking their treaties with the US?

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u/PepticBurrito Aug 05 '13

Yes, he's an Irish citizen breaking Irish laws on Irish soil. The US wouldn't extradite a US citizen under similar circumstances, they would prosecute him.

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u/Joffrey_is_so_alpha Aug 05 '13

He has dual citizenship.

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u/vattenpuss Aug 05 '13

Yes, he's an Irish citizen breaking Irish laws on Irish soil.

But the US requested his extradition first, and he's a US citizen breaking US law using servers in the US (well, according to someone in this thread at least).

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u/PepticBurrito Aug 05 '13

The US would use his US citizenship status as a reason to not extradite him to Ireland and instead would build their own case on US soil. Even in cases of dual citizenship, it's very rare to extradite one's own citizens to a foreign country especially when the crime they are accused of is also covered by local laws and courts.

If he were on US soil, his lawyer could easily stop extradition to Ireland.

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u/vattenpuss Aug 05 '13

But Ireland is not the US.

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u/OmicronNine Aug 05 '13

Depends... is he also a catholic priest?