Nobody who hasn't very a) clearly done wrong or b) actually chooses to fight the feds in court actually going to prison though. It's just a threat the fedcops

Nobody who hasn't very a) clearly done wrong or b) actually chooses to fight the feds in court actually going to prison though. It's just a threat the fedcops get to use to force you to take a plea deal. It's basically a big boy version of how your local prosecutor behaves. Instead of filing BS charges that will never stick in an attempt to "mark it up to mark it down", the fedcops are more equal so they have Every time you see someone on HN screeching about how we ought to have federal regulation and stiff penalties for whatever their pet issue is remember that this is what that looks like.