this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the correction

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

The Internet's own boy. RIP - he would have hated what they did to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Remember, America does not have a justice system, just a legal system

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yep, wrong wording

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Too bad he wasn’t building an LLM…