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Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (www.dexerto.com)

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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 101 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To those like me who are confused because Skyrim is single-player: it was a Kik username inspired by Skyrim

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Thanks. Also isn’t kik notorious for illegal shit? Like csam?

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

I've never heard of it in any context other than illegal shit.

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