Lauri Love[*], in the UK, is facing extradition requests from three separate US court districts and a potential 99 year prison sentence for his alleged involvement in the online protests that followed the death of Aaron Swartz. Depsite no evidence offered by the US, the British courts have preliminarily agreed to extradition and his appeal will be on the 28th and 29th of November. Again, no evidence has been presented against him, but if he were tried in the UK he would be facing a maximum of 32 months in prison, not 99 years as the US is aiming for.
[*] According to Wikipedia's entry for Lauri Love:
Lauri Love is a Finnish-British activist charged extraterritorially with stealing data from United States Government computers including the US Army, Missile Defense Agency, and NASA via computer intrusion.
Previously: Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @03:27AM (1 child)
> He has likely already suffered enough distress to make sure he won't do it again. [...] It seems likely that the legitimate goal of discouraging further infractions has already been met.
That's a legitimate goal in Europe, but it's not the idea under which the USA legal system operates. The USAians are a fairly vengeful bunch. Rehabilitation etc. are completely irrelevant, it's all about maximum possible punishment, without any consideration to proportionality or justice. Further compounded by the private prison system and using prisoners as slave labor (free market ahoy).
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:33AM
The maximum punishment, slave labor, etc. are nothing like legitimate goals anywhere though they are practiced in the U.S.
That's all the more reason not to extradite.