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Post #371,884
by mvitale
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2/26/13 11:39:28 PM
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New DOJ admits that his prosecution was a political act
http://tarensk.tumbl...ion-was-political

And...DOJ responds: http://www.broadcast...Not_Political.php
-Mike

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #371,890
by folkert
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2/27/13 9:19:52 AM
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New Really? B&C? Nice Choice of Venue for a reply
That basically says "Nuh-uh"...

What effing ever. The CFAA needs to be decimated or at least changed to something that is much more specific than could be imagined in 1984 and then expanded very widely in 1996.

I mean, we are talking *CENTURIES* in Internet/Computer Industry time.
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     Aaron Swartz has died at 26. - (Another Scott) - (13) - Jan. 12, 2013, 09:30:38 AM EST
         Fallows has more on why he was important. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Jan. 12, 2013, 11:30:21 AM EST
             Lessig: Prosecutor as bully - (Another Scott) - (1) - Jan. 12, 2013, 01:50:14 PM EST
                 afaict justice is pretty much dead these latter days. -NT - (jake123) - Jan. 12, 2013, 02:07:00 PM EST
         He was not only an internet pioneer... - (mvitale) - Jan. 12, 2013, 03:45:22 PM EST
         Re: Aaron Swartz has died at 26. - (mvitale) - Jan. 14, 2013, 10:11:31 AM EST
         Re: Aaron Swartz has died at 26. - (lincoln) - Jan. 14, 2013, 05:08:07 PM EST
         Re: Aaron Swartz has died at 26. - (Ashton) - (1) - Jan. 15, 2013, 03:12:09 AM EST
             A call to remove Javert from him position - (mvitale) - Jan. 15, 2013, 07:08:28 AM EST
         Issa probes attorney general over Aaron Swartz - (Ashton) - (1) - Jan. 31, 2013, 05:24:50 AM EST
             Issa doesn't care about Aaron Swartz - (lincoln) - Feb. 1, 2013, 08:39:50 AM EST
         Another who ended his life in a too-vigorous investigation. - (Another Scott) - Feb. 7, 2013, 02:29:43 PM EST
         DOJ admits that his prosecution was a political act - (mvitale) - (1) - Feb. 26, 2013, 11:39:28 PM EST
             Really? B&C? Nice Choice of Venue for a reply - (folkert) - Feb. 27, 2013, 09:19:52 AM EST

I'll even go so far as to concede that today's postliterate teenagers are already sufficiently impaired by pop culture that anything that serves to make them even more scatterbrained is rather in the way of gilding the lily, and should not be encouraged.
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