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    13 hours ago

    Remember when the Obama admin made Aaron Schwartz kill himself for ripping some JSTOR articles?

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      12 hours ago

      Blaming Obama admin here while directly true is hiding the fact that MIT a tax exemot organization with billions in federal funding petitioned the government to prosecute schwartz with the that extra big dick daddy zeal.

      MIT did this at behest of the companies who owned the copyright to journals.

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        6 hours ago

        True, but MIT can’t lock you in a federal prison for 50 lifetimes, and arguably the primary responsibility of the state is to protect private citizens against gangs of other private citizens, be they the Bloods or MIT or Chevron