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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Mostly because of an outdated view on justice and crime.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
> Mostly because of an outdated view on justice and crime.

Mostly because certain people profit off it. If you have private prisons and lifetime voting bans for someone locked up for a few months you have mega incentives to get a lot of people behind bars.