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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by fencepost on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:55PM (#13919491)
This is an interesting contrast to the article reported this past week about Nigel Lang, a black man in the UK who was accused of having or sharing child porn because of an extra digit added to an IP address during investigations[1].

One relevant section from the apology/explanation letter: "The issues around the downloading of IIOC [indecent images of children] are that statistically out of a cohort of offenders, the predominant characteristic is that the offence will be committed in the main by white males. Only a very small percentage will be black, around 3%, and only around 2% will be female. Consequently, any arrests that are made for this offence will revolve around the male in the address as the starting point for the investigation."

Notably Rawls (the man indefinitely jailed) is black.

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewchampion/this-mans-life-was-...

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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by repples on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:29AM (#13920611)
Please note that his sister testified against him:

> As part of their investigation, the Delaware County law enforcement officers also interviewed Doe’s sister, who had lived with Doe during 2015. She related that Doe had shown her hundreds of images of child pornography on the encrypted external hard drives. She told the investigators that the external hard drives included “videos of children who were nude and engaged in sex acts with other children.”

There's no racial conspiracy here, the guy is just a disgusting paedophile.

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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by bsder on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:45AM (#13920120)
> The issues around the downloading of IIOC [indecent images of children] are that statistically out of a cohort of offenders, the predominant characteristic is that the offence will be committed in the main by white males. Only a very small percentage will be black, around 3%, and only around 2% will be female.

That's quite a remarkable statistic. I wonder why.

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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by emanreus on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @07:05AM (#13921171)
Black people constitute around 3% of UK population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_British

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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by c3534l on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:15AM (#13920231)
Fewer black people for one.
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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by j2kun on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:31AM (#13920277)
US is like 12% black, no (and 50% female)? Doesn't explain the discrepancy.
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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by devmop on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @09:58AM (#13922207)
The quote is from a UK report
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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by j2kun on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:43AM (#13922571)
In that case it lines up exactly
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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by fjdlwlv on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:40AM (#13920102)
It's nice to see white folks be the victims of racial profiling once in a while.
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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by Karlozkiller on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @03:42AM (#13920465)
Is racial profiling ever truly nice to see?
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