Re: Fwd: petition to remove Aaron Swartz prosecutor

[Conrad Constantine <conrad () 1211 net>]

On 1/14/2013 9:30 PM, Kyle Creyts wrote:
> Well, with each passing Saturday bringing the trial closer, each
> probably looked more bleak.

Indeed, I'm finding the apologism for the legal bullying rather 
offensive actually - when that teenager killed herself due to 
'cyberbullying' (bleh.. they need a better term for that), nobody sat 
around saying 'well she had a long history of depression, it would 
probably have happened anyway' - no, they went after the person who'd 
victimized her, in court(*). If I go and kick someone around a bit and 
hospitalize them, is their lack of combat training and weak physique the 
reason they are in such a bad situation? Our entire lives are a series 
of 'just circumstance'; getting out of bed and going to work is 
'multifactorial' - you can't explain things off that way.

(* - In fact that cyberbullying case changed the law, yet again to make 
overly broad cases like this even more easy to carry out)

also:

http://gizmodo.com/5975996/in-the-wake-of-aaron-swartzs-death-lets-fix-draconian-computer-crime-law





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