{"id":734,"date":"2013-01-15T18:31:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/15\/how-the-legal-system-failed-aaron-swartz-and-us\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:26:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:26:48","slug":"how-the-legal-system-failed-aaron-swartz-and-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/01\/15\/how-the-legal-system-failed-aaron-swartz-and-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz&#8211;and Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See on <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/3995035166\/how-the-legal-system-failed-aaron-swartz-and-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2013\/01\/everyone-interesting-is-a-felon.html?mobify=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/BNTiUTVWpol_kx3T9pQvlTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>&ldquo;&hellip;under American law, anyone interesting is a felon. The prosecutors, not the law, decide who deserves punishment.&rdquo;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2013\/01\/everyone-interesting-is-a-felon.html?mobify=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See on newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See on Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties&ldquo;&hellip;under American law, anyone interesting is a felon. The prosecutors, not the law, decide who deserves punishment.&rdquo;See on newyorker.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":604,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/12\/13\/indias-supreme-court-upholds-anti-gay-sex-law\/","url_meta":{"origin":734,"position":0},"title":"India&#8217;s Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Gay Sex Law &#8211; ABC News","author":"aslam","date":"December 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesSee on abcnews.go.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":688,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/04\/02\/aarons-law-rewrite-backfires-reformers-now-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":734,"position":1},"title":"&#8216;Aaron&#8217;s Law&#8217; rewrite backfires, reformers now on defensive","author":"aslam","date":"April 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Congressional sausage-making in Washington threatens to rewrite a controversial anti-hacking law used against the late Aaron Swartz \u2013 by replacing it with an even more Draconian version. 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