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Re:What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison by winter_blue on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @03:31PM (#5597393)
> If I were you I'd start that rumor myself.

How would such a rumor help him at all? It would ruin his business!

> Low enforcement

I presume you were using some voice-to-text tool?

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Re:What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison by bjterry on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @04:16PM (#5597670)
The rumor would presumably help him because it would discourage his clients from committing crimes, because they would be under additional scrutiny from law enforcement. It seems unlikely that it would actually matter though, since law enforcement already has a database of convicted felons that they go to first for crimes.
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Re:What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison by carlyle4545 on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @06:26PM (#5598370)
>The rumor would presumably help him because it would discourage his clients from committing crimes,

That rumor would most likely discourage people from becoming clients in the first place.

While "getting out of the building" and talking to our assumed target demo, one of the reservations people had was the belief that we were working in concert with law enforcement.

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