Sushant Sinha on Nostr: "But, at least [Gorsuch] recognizes how ridiculous the criminal lawsuit that Swartz ...

"But, at least [Gorsuch] recognizes how ridiculous the criminal lawsuit that Swartz faced a dozen years ago is. For well over a decade, we’ve been highlighting how dangerous the CFAA is as a law. It is so easily abused by prosecutors that it’s been dubbed “the law that sticks.” It sticks because when there is no real criminal prosecution under other laws, prosecutors will often cook up a CFAA violation, as they did with Aaron." https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/05/neil-gorsuch-highlights-aaron-swartz-as-an-example-of-overreach-in-criminal-law/