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The law was changed a few weeks later to include private persons and sole traders as protected lsps, not just companies, but they had to convict me.



> If convicted, this could land me in jail for 6 to 10 years.

The 6 to 10 years is the least of his worries. The guy will be labeled a chomo and probably killed as a result. All for running a Tor exit node. What a time to be alive.


This case was in Austria, not the US, and was quite some time ago (early 2010s). He was charged under a law criminalizing "support of general distribution", not possession. He was sentenced to probation, and left the country.


I’ve never seen the term chomo before and I’m curious about its origin. Is it “homo” but with ‘c’ for child tacked on the front, or is it Spanish? Or something else, like a portmanteau of child molester?


It stands for child molester. The other term you hear all the time inside is “weird” or “weirdo.” There are others, diaper sniper, skinner (“skin bief”). You generally won’t get killed though. People like to say that but in fed low, where all the cp stuff goes, they’re all protected and they’ll ship you out if you get caught hurting them. And they WILL tell.


In the U.K. they tend to be called nonces

Always weird when you stumble into an encryption conversation


A former coworker started a startup, and very nearly used it in the name until he was informed of how the UK views the word.


How did nonce get that meaning in the uk? I've always known nonce to be a single use number


Seems it's unclear https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce#Etymology_2

> 1975. Unknown, derived from British criminal slang. Several origins have been proposed; possibly derived from dialectal nonce, nonse (“stupid, worthless individual”) (but this cannot be shown to predate nonce "child-molester" and is likely a toned-down usage of the same insult), or Nance, nance (“effeminate man, homosexual”), from nancy or nancyboy. The rhyme with ponce has also been noted.

> As prison slang also said to be an acronym for "Not On Normal Communal Exercise" (Stevens 2012), but this is likely a backronym.


Wow, "backronym". Cool word. Interesting something can be widely accepted among a nation and have little to no surety about etymology


Just wait until you hear about "okay". It's widely used in languages around the world, and there are dozens of competing etymologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_etymologies_o...


That was an incredible read. thank you for that. "Oll Korrect", Old kinderhook(!) , oke okeh, Ohne Korrectur. Etymology is awesome. I really overestimated how much we know about our own language I guess!


something like:

Not Observing Normal Community Exercise


> The other term you hear all the time inside is “weird” or “weirdo.”

I'll have to request a user name change I guess.


Child porn, probably not getting killed but actual child molesters is pretty common.


Only ever saw a chomo ex-cop get close to being killed because he didn’t check in. Gang members on the other hand, saw quite a few get killed. Two for being in a gay relationship. That’s the US prison system for you. No clue what state is like.


"Moes" for short also.


The way I learned it is that it is a portmanteau of child molester. The extra "o" in the middle is used because "chmo" is hard to pronounce.


"Chimo" would make more sense in that case, so that's probably not the origin of it.


Would you also argue that mofo can't derive from motherfucker because that would be mofu?


Yeah, I can't imagine anyone wanting slang to rhyme.


Maybe English does have a little bit of vowel harmony after all.


It's short for "child molester," and happens to sound a lot like "homo." Very common term in prison.


And innuendo and deniability is just as common a past time.

The UK's Carry On films and other TV programs like the BBC Are you being served tv sitcom were heavily into innuendo, in as much a way as some jokes in Disney Pixar films fly over the head's of kids, but is understood by most adults perfectly well.

Not only is it a way to quantify peoples mental abilities by whether they laugh in a cinema watched by a secret camera and AI or whether documented on social media, or listened into by our phones and then adverts, its also an in plain site way for some people in society to identify people for exploitation and manipulation, just like teenagers are dedicated followers of fashion.

Its quite interesting really, just like the changes in slang language is a stealth form of working out the age of someone typing online, by the use of their vocabulary and interests. In some respects humans are just lemmings and very people actually come up with original content, not that the original content is necessarily any good.

But mainstream trends happen for a reason, in much the same way as you wont really see anything go viral like they used to on the internet in the early 00's.

Peoples reactions whether culturally or legally correct or not are also telling.

Its all psychological and biological mind games, because histidine and carnosine as two amino acids, which could get alot of males into trouble if they are not careful!

I found the recent ambulance strikes in the UK quite telling, they would attend cat 1 or level 1 people who basically had an over active immune system ie allergic reactions, but refused to attend to cat 2 or level 2 people who had an under active immune system which groups the elderly into that group automatically. In other words the recent UK ambulance strikes were a stealth form of eugenics on the elderly, but most of the british population wouldnt have known this.

And that is my point, there is alot more going on that meets the eye, but if Freud was right, what does that make many parents?


I remember it because SNL had a skit where The Rock invented a "robo chomo"[0]. Given that SNL used it, I thought it was a pretty mainstream term.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NgUhEs1R4


Yes, the latter


> probably killed as a result

This is a violent fantasy. I'd estimate that 99.9% of child molesters who go to prison walk out alive and relatively uninjured.


It wasn’t in the US, and it was for him either 3 months jail or probation for some years, he was also able to leave Europe completely, most likely because they know he had nothing to do with it but per the article there was no plea.


On the other hand, his picture and actual name appear in articles like this one that will show up in a background search.




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