Wasn't Linus Torvalds the one who railed against, in so many words, corporatism? Oh yeah. He was. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/16/torvalds_potty_mouty_fight_back/)

Aye well, so much for the "volunteers" behind Linux, right?

It's expensive to lay the cables, but they're cheap once they're in. Poles, on the other hand, are cheap to install and expensive to maintain. Reliability-wise, underground is excellent and poles, especially in rural areas, can't be noted for their reliability.

And the NSA thinks "Whew. Dodged that one!"

And the prize for The Most Credulous Claim goes to...

The difference is that mindfuck isn't targeting one group of people with a demeaning "parody".

Proportionality is important, too. His punishment was wildly out of proportion to the offense.

Where's the "Like" button? There's just something egregiously wrong when you can be fined $183,000 and get two years probation for something like participating in a short-lived denial of service attack. That's a wildly disproportionate punishment!