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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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The case of British guy Joseph O'connor, facing trial in the US on hacking charges. Apparently he could get 70 years in prison for hacking into twitter accounts and blackm**ling people.
Yet murderers and paedophile get less than half this in many cases. Pretty obvious the system values and punishes financial attacks on the rich and powerful more than the lives of the average guy. |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
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From what I've read he's facing 20 years, unless they add sentences concurrently. He stole nearly $800,000, extorted and bl*ckmiled as well as hacking accounts and threatening to divulge personal details. I think he deserves whatever sentence he gets.
There's no point in comparing sentences. It shouldn't be 'either/or'. Yes, sentences for sex crimes should be longer.
But that doesn't mean financial crimes, bl*ckmail or hacking should be shorter. They're definitely not victimless crimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/10/twitter-hack-uk-man-pleads-guilty-to-hijacking-accounts-including-of-joe-biden-and-elon-musk
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"The case of British guy Joseph O'connor, facing trial in the US on hacking charges. Apparently he could get 70 years in prison for hacking into twitter accounts and blackm**ling people.
Yet murderers and paedophile get less than half this in many cases. Pretty obvious the system values and punishes financial attacks on the rich and powerful more than the lives of the average guy."
What you have done there is compared what this person *could* get charged with with what you think others get. It's no use comparing what sentence could get passed in another country with ones that do get passed here in the UK and then trying to construct some moral argument around it. Google the longest jail sentences and the list is largely American and full of murderers and rapists. If I recall their longest ever sentence was in the thousands of years. |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
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"The case of British guy Joseph O'connor, facing trial in the US on hacking charges. Apparently he could get 70 years in prison for hacking into twitter accounts and blackm**ling people.
Yet murderers and paedophile get less than half this in many cases. Pretty obvious the system values and punishes financial attacks on the rich and powerful more than the lives of the average guy."
you could murder someone and be out in 15 years but i imagine its the fact thats its a modern crime that comes with the development of technology so they are making an example of him  |
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This post is entirely speculative - no ones been given 70 years yet have they? If he has it will be compounding crimes.
But that's how it works, and b/mail has always been seen as an extremely serious crime. It could be less 'broad' than 'murder' and 'paedophilia' too, both of which have degrees. And both of those two can get massive sentencing obviously! Murders can be totally cold and premeditated to crimes of passion or wild acts under massive substance abuse etc. People are only allowed out of jail conditionally too: it doesn't always happen. It's worth remembering that though post-release fuck-ups can happen, the high cost to the tax payer goes on after the more serious cons have been released: they are not just simply freed.
People often make the mistake of comparing the sentencing of different crimes, but that is just not how legal systems works. They simply cannot work that way for a number of reasons. If people are upset about the sentencing of any one particular crime (esp in relation to similar cases), it's best just to focus on that. pt |
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