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appropriate response would be perhaps to take my computers away like they did,
and leave it at that. They could tell me that I can’t use the internet for a while, to
teach me a lesson, teach me that they actually do care about what I’m doing, and
that I shouldn’t do it again. But they shouldn’t put the youth of America in jail.
Q: How does the prospect of sitting in jail for six months affect you?
R: First of all – six months. While it’s not as long as some other sentences, it’s still
a long time. And that’s six months of me being surrounded by people that did these
actual crimes, did bad things to other people, to humanity. And I’m surrounding
myself with these people that are lower than myself. Not to sound ...