• @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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        151 month ago

        Bring along a Kinder surprise egg into the US and see how understanding and friendly the US legal system is to people who made a honest mistake.

          • @Adanisi@lemmy.zip
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            1 month ago

            Better example: drugs which are legal in other countries but not the US.

            What would US law enforcement do if they found you with illegal (in US) drugs, eh?

            They sure as hell wouldn’t be letting you off with it.

      • @JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        Copyright infringement, DRM circumvention, and “hacking.”

        See: Aaron Swartz

        On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

      • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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        11 month ago

        oh I can think of tens of thousands of people imprisoned for just holding a tiny bit of weed. bet some of them were mexican, canadian and otherwise foreign citizens, do you think that gave the local yokels pause in putting them in jail? charging them?

        LOLOL