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Justice is complicated. Usually it's very difficult to quantify damages, specially when those damages depends on a POV. What I think we all can agree is that sentences times are disproportionated: committing a crime to a corporation is one of the most dangerous things you can do, even more than killing or raping someone.

For example: "Causing or encouraging prostitution of, intercourse with or indecent assault on girl under 16" gets you a max sentence of 2 years.

So, a guy use his computer to show us some nasty things the government is doing with our money: 10 years

A pimp manipulates a 13-years-old girl to have sex with pedophiles: 2 years

EDIT: Another example is Chelsea Manning, who now have a criminal sentence of 35 years, and on the other side the guys of Collateral Murder video from the Air Force who killed innocents persons have no charges and are free...



> So, a guy use his computer to show us some nasty things the government is doing with our money: 10 years

Including stealing people's CCs.




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