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[–] Bruhh@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, it wasn't even illegal since these scientific articles should have been public to begin with because they used public funds.

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

That may be so, but IIRC he was charged with breaking into MIT's networking room and illegally tapping into their network to get the articles:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261840/Aaron-Swartz-MIT-surveillance-shot-ruined-tragic-Reddit-founders-life.html

[–] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That also may be so, but 35 years is fucked up for that. pretty sure child porn first time offenders is like 15 to 30 so hacking MIT for stuff that should have been free gets you more jail time then a first CP offence. OK thats fucked up

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

OK a reason to not like him but sending him to prison for his views that he didnt act on sounds like fasicm lol I dont agree with his views just saying

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Assuming this is actually by the guy, here is what the linked article says about child porn:

In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

Wired has an article on how these laws destroy honest people's lives.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Child pornography is not necessarily abuse.

Yikes.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

An image of an event is not the event. That's the reasoning there. There's some sense of logic there, though the knowledge their abuse is used by pedophiles can absolutely be a continuing trauma for the victims.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Well that's definitely burying the lede from the OP.

It wasn't the sharing part they had a problem with, it was the B&E and hacking.