Lessig on the DoJ's vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing: "Prosecutorial bullying out of proportion to the alleged crimes sums it up well (especially since the bullying victim is, yet again, an eccentric geek). I suspect the Justice Department never forgave him for embarrassing them in the PACER case, where he helped liberate publicly owned information they have a vested interest in keeping expensive and locked up.
As others have mentioned, we see the exact opposite of the problem, namely prosecutorial leniency out of proportion to the proven crimes, in re: the money-laundering executives of HSBC and the economy-wrecking executives of the "too big to fail" financial services corporations."
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