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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So these people were not only depraved, they were idiots, too? Did they decide that their home Internet was too slow for their illegal content, so they'd do it at work? Crazy.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They were often range officers, the guys who sit in the range office (the range is a hallway with cells in it). They were bored at night when the offenders were in bed asleep.

There had never been effective enforcement so they got away with it. It took some time for the message to get out that we were watching and that there would be consequences.