Aaron Swartz was never convicted for these crime, much less sentenced to 35 years. According to wikipedia, his maximum exposure was 50 years and $1 million in fines; he almost certainly would not have faced those in sentencing.
This is not to diminish the terrorist tactics of the prosecutors that lead to his death. ACAB
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DandomRude@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y
The Internet's own boy. RIP - he would have hated what they did to reddit.
aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social · 39 pts · 2y
Aaron Swartz was never convicted for these crime, much less sentenced to 35 years. According to wikipedia, his maximum exposure was 50 years and $1 million in fines; he almost certainly would not have faced those in sentencing.
This is not to diminish the terrorist tactics of the prosecutors that lead to his death. ACAB
psycocan@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Thanks for the correction
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
Worth a read. The US robbed us of him https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 2y
Remember, America does not have a justice system, just a legal system
psycocan@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Yep, wrong wording
ccunning@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Too bad he wasn’t building an LLM…