• ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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      5 days ago

      He also wasn’t a whistleblower he was just downloading scholarly articles from a service he had legal access to use.

      The theory that he would be murdered over this is pretty wild as any college student or person with a JSTOR account has access to these same articles, so what necessitates murder in Aaron’s situation? He wasn’t exposing anyone or anything. It was just some douche of a federal employee trying to advance his career by “making an example” out of some kid who arguably didn’t even do anything illegal.

    • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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      To be fair, ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if…’ isn’t a testimony or claiming something happened, it’s voicing a level of disillusionment with something, nothing but opinion.