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>>sixtyf+(OP)
"Swartz potentially faced more jail time for downloading academic papers than he would have if he had helped Al Qaeda build a nuclear weapon. "

Too much for the American values.

>>NmAmDa+yh
It's things like this that make me believe that the US isn't a truly free society. It simply pretends it is.

But all nations have their problems. The US simply has more than one might think.

>>mettam+8j
The US has the highest prison population per capita in the world.

Mostly because of an outdated view on justice and crime.

>>xorfis+9l
It's good for violent crimes though.

Whereas in Sweden for example, a violent rapist was awarded ~$84k - https://www.gp.se/ledare/v%C3%A5ldt%C3%A4ktsmannens-skadest%... - after he turned out to be a minor but had been tried as an adult, and in the end spent less than 2 years in prison.

Some of ThePirateBay founders had longer sentences, absolute clown world.