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Anonymous-tied hacktivist faces prison for sharing link
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Tuesday December 11, 2012 00:47 by Elric
I really am shocked at this, not because they are harassing him, not because they want to imprison him. I'm shocked because Barrett Brown is facing decades in prison for copying a hyper-link. “Link Barrett accused of sharing was also posted on Cryptome + several blogs. Will these websites be indicted for ‘transferring link’ too?” UK journalist Ryan Gallagher asked on Twitter over the weekend Full text at link. On top of his previous charges, Brown now faces decades of additional prison time if convicted on the newest crimes, including one count of traffic in stolen authentication features, one count of access device fraud and 10 counts of identity theft. |
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Jump To Comment: 1This is very sinister indeed. If they can convict over adding a link then by implication there is no right to free speech at all and they can basically charge anyone who even discusses this stuff. This is a very bad omen.