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by WarOnPrivacy
1146 days ago
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> Someone spent 8 years in jail for sending lobster in an incorrect container. Not a live lobster, a dead one. I feel this isn't a terrific example as it doesn't seem to be true. "The notion the case was about packaging is incorrect,' [the prosecutor] said. 'Packaging was the means by which the crime was concealed. It was the mechanism to conceal the extent of overharvesting." ref: https://web.archive.org/web/20210603000400/https://www.eenew... US Gov's overzealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz on behalf of major publishers (and major donors) might work better. That involves creating law and the exercise of gov power, both of which were granted to the copyright interests behind influential lobbyists. |
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