Comment on Never Forget

koavf@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t make a claim like that without elaborating why you think it’s misinormation [SIC].

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  • John_McMurray@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It didn’t get to trial if I remember right. He definitely wasn’t sentenced.

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    • Zacryon@lemmy.wtf ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      According to a quick read on Wikipedia, you are right. He was charged, But not sentenced.

      On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT.[15][16] Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,[17] carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.[18] Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison.[19] Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment.[20][21]

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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  • koavf@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It makes two claims and he did commit suicide. Also, my keyboard is broken. :/

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• AOCapitulator@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What about this is misinformation?

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  • koavf@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is not true that he was sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR. It is true that he killed himself.

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    • AOCapitulator@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      After googling it it seems he was charged and those were the estimate of years if convicted so

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      • koavf@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So?

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