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Assuming that what is charged here is true - namely, that the prosecutors brought the case against Swartz because of his philosophical writings on open data

The whole point is that it's not true! It's just something HuffPo, et al. are spinning out of a much less controversial statement about what evidence they considered to establish intent. The strongly-conclusive headlines do not match the actual story here. Defending the bullshit headlines doesn't make them true--that's not how truth works.