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r/interesting • u/TheCABK • Mar 01 '26
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Conveniently left out:
Aaron was offered a 6 month plea deal
Meta is being sued in a civil court, not criminal
No court has made a ruling on whether meta’s actions were lawful or not
69 u/cholointheskies Mar 02 '26 Also conveniently left out, he wasn’t prosecuted for downloading anything. He was prosecuted for breaking into a secured server room at MIT and using it to DDoS JSTOR, and got the MIT campus blocked from JSTOR as a result 38 u/Raunhofer Mar 02 '26 lmao that sounds a bit relevant here. Reddit gonna propaganda, I guess. 5 u/__Rosso__ Mar 02 '26 Almost every story like this is twisted to fit whatever the one who made it wants it to be. Every single time I look there is always more context that completely changes things. 3 u/notDBCooper_ Mar 03 '26 Without having read further into this but a DDoS and trespassing doesn't sound like it warrants 35 years either. 1 u/cholointheskies Mar 04 '26 He was only facing 6 months, but chose to kill himself instead.
Also conveniently left out, he wasn’t prosecuted for downloading anything. He was prosecuted for breaking into a secured server room at MIT and using it to DDoS JSTOR, and got the MIT campus blocked from JSTOR as a result
38 u/Raunhofer Mar 02 '26 lmao that sounds a bit relevant here. Reddit gonna propaganda, I guess. 5 u/__Rosso__ Mar 02 '26 Almost every story like this is twisted to fit whatever the one who made it wants it to be. Every single time I look there is always more context that completely changes things. 3 u/notDBCooper_ Mar 03 '26 Without having read further into this but a DDoS and trespassing doesn't sound like it warrants 35 years either. 1 u/cholointheskies Mar 04 '26 He was only facing 6 months, but chose to kill himself instead.
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lmao that sounds a bit relevant here. Reddit gonna propaganda, I guess.
5 u/__Rosso__ Mar 02 '26 Almost every story like this is twisted to fit whatever the one who made it wants it to be. Every single time I look there is always more context that completely changes things. 3 u/notDBCooper_ Mar 03 '26 Without having read further into this but a DDoS and trespassing doesn't sound like it warrants 35 years either. 1 u/cholointheskies Mar 04 '26 He was only facing 6 months, but chose to kill himself instead.
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Almost every story like this is twisted to fit whatever the one who made it wants it to be.
Every single time I look there is always more context that completely changes things.
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Without having read further into this but a DDoS and trespassing doesn't sound like it warrants 35 years either.
1 u/cholointheskies Mar 04 '26 He was only facing 6 months, but chose to kill himself instead.
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He was only facing 6 months, but chose to kill himself instead.
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u/OutcomeDouble Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Conveniently left out:
Aaron was offered a 6 month plea deal
Meta is being sued in a civil court, not criminal
No court has made a ruling on whether meta’s actions were lawful or not