Yeah, might want to consider deleting them. That could turn into a nightmare.

If you think there's a reasonable chance that you have CP on your computer why wouldn't you delete all the stuff? This is not complicated.

cat /dev/urandom and it also has CP, oh noes! quick delete everything.

Hoarding porn is kind of useless nowadays, especially without any kind of selection and categorization, but maybe someone does it because it's their hobby (or obsession), who knows.

Also if a lot of people has a bunch of porn images scraped from forums it's quite possible that eventually some of that might become illegal as the laws change here or there around the world. Should they proactively delete everything? Sure, they could. To be safe.

But this kind of safety is absolutely the bad kind on the long term. (Though of course it's possible to advocate for reform while not storing content with uncertain legality.)

Dude, this is all great in theory but in a court of law you'll get completely horsefucked if you have child porn on your hard drive. The judge and jury won't care about /dev/random or a fall to reform

You would think that in our "great" and "fair" legal system simply scrapping a legal site would not be enough to ruin your life. Especially if no harm was done and no intention of harm was there.

I’ve never once wanted GIF support on HN comments until this moment. Good god man what is wrong with you

> Since many are user uploaded, I imagine a small number must be real CP.

I mean, that is actually illegal. The problem here is the possession of child pornography.

I didn't have "a shit ton". I said that out of ~x00000 images, some might be bad.

But, yeah, I've deleted them now.

Good I'm glad, I was only harsh because I don't want to see an innocent programmer tossed in jail because of one mistake. xoxo