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Just like Aaron Swartz. Is it really necessary to send 15 officers and / or sentence people to 20+ years in prison for downloading freely available information?

Aaron Swartz faced a longer prison sentence than most murderers within the US, and the sentence for murder in almost any other country in the world.

Common sense has completely gone out the window in both policing, and the criminal justice system.

Was anyone injured? Did anyone suffer financial loss? Fear to self? Any form of significant damage at all? The answer to all the previous questions is a definitive and resounding NO!



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