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I dont know anything about this individual or his political persuasions, nor do I have any information on his current legal situation, but regardless it is insane to me that we can just publish something like this. What if this person is innocent? The entire world has now seen their face and the words "child pornography" together and that is 1000% a life ruiner. Our culture regarding the legal system is fucked the fuck up man
People on the internet seem to.entirely forget the whole presumption of innocence until proven guilty. This should even apply to Republicans.
Presumption of innocence is a legal rule, not a good epistemic rule. If it turns out that he's found innocent, then cool, good for him. However, I'm going to keep assuming that Republican politicians charged with/accused of sexual misconduct are guilty until proven otherwise because the rate of sexual misconduct among Republican politicians seems to be Insanely High, plus their ideology and policies help justify it.
Although I don't think arrests should be public record, cops can arrest people for anything regardless of evidence and particularly for something as serious as CSAM possession it should at least have to go to trial to be made public