• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yeah but he was a lefty libertarian who believed publicly funded research should be publicly available. If he were doing it for profit he wouldn’t have had any problems.

    • BurnedDonutHole@ani.social
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      3 months ago

      It doesn’t matter what he believed. They wanted to make an example of him and build their carriers thanks to that example. The only people they went after this hard were Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.