It is crazy. He didn’t even mention that Facebook has 10x more data on us than the govt, and far fewer enforced checks and balances. In the NSA, if you look up your ex’s file, you get disciplined. In Facebook — who knows? Shrug. Everything bad we thought 5 years ago that NSA was doing, we now realize Facebook was the one really doing it. And doing worse atufff. |
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Owner of the Bethesda house where tunnels were dug is sentenced to nine years in prison.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/us/maryland-man-fire-death-tunnels/index.html
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Agree that the sentence should have been much longer. He was making essentially a slave dig these incredibly unsafe tunnels. |
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9 years in jail is a long time. He got what he deserved.
This crime was a bad one and the perpetrator should be punished for it. I’m not advocating for letting this guy off the hook, I’m advocating for lower sentences for lesser crimes. |
| I hope the victims family takes all of his money. |
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The Washingtonian did a deep dive on this case and it is so worth your time.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/08/paranoid-tech-bro-homemade-nuclear-bunker-shocking-death-askia-khafra-daniel-beckwitt/ |
And here’s an AMA with the reporter: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d1su72/im_a_freelance_journalist_i_spent_a_year/ |
That already happened in Bethesda. |
The Stanford rapist only got six months with three months served. |
| That seems really excessive considering he didn’t kill anyone |
Never mind. I thought that said “racist”... not rapist. The guy who beat up the asian camera guy on campus last year. |
| Wow. This is definitely Netflix movie worthy |
I never heard of this story until this thread tonight and just read this article. Wow. |
| So many mentions of millionaire - but wasn’t he only wealth from mothers life insurance? |
He had a trust from her and then bought bitcoin at some point at the right time so that he was way up at the time of the fire, IIRC. |