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Why is this on the front page? This is barely even about Aaron Schwartz -- he wasn't disabled, friendless, or prone to drooling for example. Less of these kinds

• konstruktor 14y ago
  Did you read TFA? Not making any judgment about the claim: What she suggests is that he was an easy victim for the plea bargain game because of his known problems with depression.
• _delirium 14y ago
  I agree the linked article isn't really about Swartz, but I think it's a reasonable opportunity to look at how U.S. federal prosecution works/fails in general.
• sbov 14y ago
  A felony isn't a slap on the wrist. It can have a long lasting affect on your life, closing up whole career opportunities and making travel a pain in the ass.
• smsm42 14y ago
  It is on the front page because this is happening in the USA every day, every hour. But we usually hear about it only when somebody high-profile enough is hurt by the criminal prosecution machine. But make no mistake of thinking the same machine doesn't hurt people 24/7 - we just don't hear about it often. Maybe if we did, we could get some way to fix it or at least make it less cruel and inhumane. Most of the readers here, I presume, are lucky enough to have very small chance of being pulled into the criminal prosecution machine unless they do something out of the ordinary - like Aaron Swartz did. But it still exists right next to us and we better not forget about it.