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<atom:link href="http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/prosecution-aaron-swartz-matters/239289/#comments" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><title><![CDATA[Comments on: Why the Prosecution of Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Matters to You, Personally]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Simply put, you are most likely a criminal given the same sort of broad reading of the CFAA that Ortiz's office used to go after Swartz.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Sign this Whitehouse petition to make the DOJ accountable for Aaron Swartz death https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/appoint-independent-investigator-subpoena-power-investigate-instances-doj-bullying-extorsion-and/ZrDymCLq]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:40 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: tclynch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Actually, he didn&#039;t &quot;break&quot; into the wiring closet; MIT is (was?) a notoriously &quot;open&quot; campus, both digitally and physically. The door was unlocked; some homeless guy was using it as a place to stash his stuff (http://onforb.es/XTb5R5) before Swartz ever opened that door....]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:32 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[America, home of the Free and the Brave? The scary thing is that once this starts on American soil, the next step is usually imposing their laws and rules on their trading partners and allies . . .
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Sydney, Austarlia]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:54 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, no. He was never actually facing 30 years. Those are the theoretical maxes, which are not the federal sentencing guidelines, which would be far less for him. He *was* facing an offer of less than or equal to 6 months minimum security confinement as part of a plea deal. Was the prosecution overblown under the laws as they exist? Probably, yes, but the underlying laws are the main problem, and Aaron escalated the situation way beyond what any of us would likely ever face. Remember, he ignored several efforts (warnings!) to kick him off the system, then he *broke into a wiring cabinet and planted computers there*. While he wasn&#039;t charged with breaking and entering it was that act in particular that painted a target on his back. While his motives were probably pure, it was a terrible decision to enter that cabinet and tap into the network in such a manner, and showed a decided lack of maturity to actually physically break into facilities that way. Everyone loses in this case.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:58 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The US has 5% of the world&#039;s population, and 25% of the world&#039;s prison population. This case has become a cause for so many reasons. The biggest reason is because it so clearly and concisely shows what and how prosecutorial misconduct looks like. This guy was facing 30 years for checking too many books out of the library. If he was subject to such prosecution, chances are there are actually people in prison for exactly the same thing, and perhaps for as long. Certainly, with incarceration rates in the US 10 times that of other industrialized nations, and no safer for it, we can be sure that there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been bullied to a greater or lesser extent, but bullied nonetheless, into forfeiting their right to trial with a felony plea and prison time.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:40 EST</pubDate>
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