They shouldn't be allowed to go harder. It should have ended with contempt of court. Coming at him asking him for the SSL keys protecting 400,000 people should

They shouldn't be allowed to go harder. It should have ended with contempt of court. Coming at him asking him for the SSL keys protecting 400,000 people should be illegal. Under what grounds can they arbitrarily increase the scope several order of magnitude with the intent to intimidate? It should have ended with fines, which eventually lead him to shut down the business because it was no longer possible. Fines are a cost of doing business that previously had not factored in. Trying to force his hand by compromising the entire service when none of the other 399,000 other people had anything to do with the crime of 1 is wrong and shouldn't even be an option on the table. Furthermore, contempt of court should come with the ability to renounce your citizenship and be deported as a political refugee. In fact, that should be the punishment if fines don't work, not jail. Contempt of court is simply a statement that "Previously I lived in this country and supported its laws, but I've committed no crime and am now asked to support some aspect of this nation's laws that I don't agree with. I am now choosing to reject those laws as my own, even if that means that I will be deprived of the right to live in this nation." I really don't understand how jail time eventually become the punishment for rejecting laws but having committed no crime. That being said, anyone who is in jeopardy of having to give up their citizenship should have due process in a court of law before being forced to do so.