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"Minor" cases, indeed.
Do you know the details of this particular case? Or are you just basing this on a headline you read?
In this climate of disappearing people who disagree with you, and targeting political opponents, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with locking everyone up without due process.
Not saying it's the case, at all, but if you wanted to take someone down, planting cp on their computer is a sure fire way to do it. Particularly because of (understandable) knee jerk reactions like yours.
Woooosh. Yes, they're basing their dad joke on the headline and it's enought for the joke to work well.