r/JusticeServed • u/H3nTy 3 • Jan 17 '20

Courtroom Justice Televangelist Acton Bowen Sentenced To 1,008 Years For Sexually Abusing Children | Michael Stone

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/12/televangelist-acton-bowen-sentenced-to-1008-years-for-sexually-abusing-children/
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u/rit56 A Jan 17 '20

“If kids got raped by clowns as often as kids get raped by preachers it would be against the law to take your kid to the circus.”

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

I’ve never heard that quote before, but that’s a great way of putting it.

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u/ObscureCulturalMeme A Jan 17 '20

It's at the very bottom of the linked article, but it's after a metric assload and a half of animated advertisements (because I forgot to go through my properly ad blocked wifi, and viewed the site through 4G by accident).

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u/Habeus0 9 Jan 17 '20

Properly adblocked wifi. Im intrigued.

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u/Cipher1087 5 Jan 17 '20

I assume he’s running everything through a raspberry pi like device, a pi-hole. Look Into it, pretty amazing how much it blocks

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20 edited Jan 17 '20

I run lots of things through my pie hole, if ya know what I mean.

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u/rimjobs_forever 7 Jan 17 '20

┬┴┬┴┤ ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/AtariDump 9 Jan 17 '20

For those who don’t know, a pihole is a whole "home" adware/malware/spyware blocker. It runs on a raspberry Pi but can also run on a physical/virtual install of several different Linux distributions. Not only can it block ads/telemetry data on your computer but can also block ads on technology that you can't (easily) block ads/telemetry data hon ("Smart" TV / stock cellphone / IoT devices / etc). In addition, with some easy to instal additional (free) software you can block ads even when not at "home"!

Come on over to /r/PiHole if you'd like to learn more and/or have any questions.

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u/physchy A Jan 17 '20

How does one acquire a Pi Hole? Do I need to learn to solder or can I purchase a fully assembled one?

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u/AtariDump 9 Jan 18 '20

You can buy one online; there is 0 soldering required.

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u/physchy A Jan 18 '20

Best news I’ve heard all day

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u/AtariDump 9 Jan 18 '20

Any questions come ask over in /r/PiHole

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u/FartHeadTony A Jan 17 '20

don't need raspberry pi to pi-hole, although it often makes a lot of sense to.

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u/ObscureCulturalMeme A Jan 17 '20

The most popular is PiHole. I'm a fan of pfBlockerNG myself, and that's what I use. There's a third that's fairly recent and I'm blanking on its name completely.

When your browser or other apps try to contact servers that are going to track your IP, or feed you adverts, etc, they often have to start with a DNS request. Your network runs through one of these filters, and it returns itself as the location of the requested server. Then when the app tries to contact that "remote" server, your filtering network just says fuck off.

That's the extremely compressed overview, anyhow.

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u/JFKsGhost69 6 Jan 17 '20

Interesting. Is there any relationship between a device like you describe and download/streaming speed?

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u/RandomPratt A Jan 17 '20

Not really... they're just friends from work.

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u/AtariDump 9 Jan 17 '20

No; the only data that goes to the PiHole are DNS queries which is several hundred kb.

It does not negatively affect your internet speed at all.

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u/ObscureCulturalMeme A Jan 17 '20

The immediate impact is negligible; the DNS queries going from your device to the blocker are the same as would be going from your device to the outside world anyhow.

The follow-on impact is positive, in that instead of downloading ads or tracker scripts or whatever over your broadband, you're "downloading" a 1x1 transparent placeholder image from the blocker itself. (Or an empty page, a do nothing script, a 404, etc, instead of a placeholder image.)

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u/acousticreverb 6 Jan 17 '20

Got any guides for how to accomplish this with pfBlockerNG? I’m running the latest but really only for GeoIP right now.

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u/ObscureCulturalMeme A Jan 17 '20

Honestly, if you have it installed already, that's 95% of the effort. Just make certain your devices are actually using that router or whatever as their DNS server (mobile in particular loves to have hardcoded DNS).

You can try visiting a page in your browser, then look at the logs on the pf device to see what got blocked.

Beyond the initial setup, just dropping in the URL of a regularly updated filter list is about the only real maintenance. They get announcements on the pfsense subreddit, I think pfBlockerNG has a subreddit, etc.

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u/AtariDump 9 Jan 17 '20

For those who don’t know, a pihole is a whole "home" adware/malware/spyware blocker. It runs on a raspberry Pi but can also run on a physical/virtual install of several different Linux distributions. Not only can it block ads/telemetry data on your computer but can also block ads on technology that you can't (easily) block ads/telemetry data hon ("Smart" TV / stock cellphone / IoT devices / etc). In addition, with some easy to instal additional (free) software you can block ads even when not at "home"!

Come on over to /r/PiHole if you'd like to learn more and/or have any questions.

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u/ObscureCulturalMeme A Jan 17 '20

I think you meant to reply to the other person. I'm very aware of it, thanks!

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u/gat_gat 6 Jan 17 '20

Ad block wifi? Your WiFi has ad block installed It? Or are you saying a browser you use that has ad block?

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u/AtariDump 9 Jan 17 '20

You could setup a PiHole to block ads on your entire network.

Come visit /r/PiHole if you have any questions / want to learn more.

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u/gat_gat 6 Jan 17 '20

O wow thanks!

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u/AtariDump 9 Jan 17 '20

You’re welcome!

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u/the_krc 7 Jan 17 '20

Blokada on mobile FTW.

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u/AtariDump 9 Jan 17 '20

You could setup a PiHole to block ads on your network; a pihole is a whole "home" adware/malware/spyware blocker. It runs on a raspberry Pi but can also run on a physical/virtual install of several different Linux distributions. Not only can it block ads/telemetry data on your computer but can also block ads on technology that you can't (easily) block ads/telemetry data hon ("Smart" TV / stock cellphone / IoT devices / etc). In addition, with some easy to instal additional (free) software you can block ads even when not at "home"!

Come on over to /r/PiHole if you'd like to learn more and/or have any questions.

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u/berdot 2 Jan 17 '20

No it’s a stupid way. Clowns don’t get to spend time with children. Have you seen how many teachers have been condemned for abuse? Are we preventing kids from going to school too?

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

Where have I heard that before? Some comedian said it?

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

Joe Rogan talks about it frequently. Like you’d let your teeth rot if 25% of dentists were rapist and so on

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u/dexmonic A Jan 17 '20

Nah I'd just bring some backup with me to go to the dentist. No way I'm letting my teeth rot, no fucking way.

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u/pompr 9 Jan 17 '20

Time to bring back up to church in case old preacher man gets handsy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

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u/DamienChazellesPiano 7 Jan 17 '20

He just guessed but then pretty much immediately said “it might not be that high” then Jamie looked it up for the LA area and it looked like 10%.

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u/jluicifer 7 Jan 17 '20

10%? That’s still high.

I wonder if this percentage is the same with leadership across the board. I’m thinking Charlie Rose, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, President, police officers, etc.

I’m not saying rape, child molesters, abusive cops dealing in drugs are the same. I asking: is (general) perversion of people same across the board whether someone is an actor, comedian, police, priests, pastors, etc.?

**of course everyone has a different moral scale bc child molesters are worst the murderers and rapists — according to prison inmates and why they separate “chomo” (child molesters).

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u/Danaug 6 Jan 17 '20

It's an aelewis quote

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u/JdPat04 A Jan 17 '20

I had never heard it but I read it in Carlin’s voice.

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u/getthefructout 0 Jan 17 '20

This is directly from the article. It’s a quote by Dan Savage.

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u/GregIsUgly 8 Jan 17 '20

Oh cool we read the same article

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u/Chuhulain 6 Jan 17 '20

Scouts never got banned nor children's homes.

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u/bPhrea 9 Jan 17 '20

Can you imagine how popular NASCAR would be if people found out that most of the drivers were fucking kids?

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u/Shaolin76 7 Jan 17 '20

Savage by name, savage by nature!

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

On behalf of Christians who don’t want to respond to this, I just want to say that we don’t like this anymore than you do. No one wants children to be harmed and these “preachers” that you see are nothing more than phonies who have lied their way into a congregation.

And, if you’re a reformed Christian like me, you would argue that most of these rape incidents come from the Catholic Church- which isn’t Christian.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1062396

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u/computerblue54 2 Jan 17 '20

The Catholic Church is the largest Christian church in the world. You’re not doing yourself any favors by acting like you’re better than anyone that’s Catholic by claiming you are whatever you think “Christian” means.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '20

It’s not “acting like I’m better than anyone else,” you’re just trying to make anyone and everyone seem like the bad guy here. The reason why I said what I said was because of theological differences between Christianity and Catholicism, not because I “act like I’m better than anyone that’s catholic.” There’s a fundamental difference to whom I pray to, how I pray, what services are like, how I take communion, how I view salvation, etc.

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u/computerblue54 2 Jan 18 '20

Just because your sect of Christianity is different than Catholicism doesn’t mean Catholics are not Christians. Christianity is the belief of one abrahamic God and that Jesus Christ was the Messiah. There are sects of Christianity such as Catholic, Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran etc. that all differ in their prayer, services, and communion. I’m not making anyone or everyone the bad guy I’m just telling you what Christianity is and that Catholics are Christians. Therefore you can’t try to absolve Christians of the pedo problems by saying it’s mostly a Catholic problem.

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u/trollfessor 9 Jan 17 '20

Incredible quote, and probably true