this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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Does the punishment fit the "crime"?
All of the people who need to be in jail to protect us from them seem to never go, and they are busy busting people like these guys and Ross Ulbricht who were actually advancing use of technology.
What's worse:
I find it very dubious to conflate running a hosting service with piracy, even if piracy was all over it.
Well, that's something he certainly knows a lot about, as he did the same way back when.