They even ended up dropping the "unauthorized use" of the computer, apparently even that turned out to be someone else's porn.  Yet they succeeded in ruining his life.

I see us sliding into things, internment camps, show trials, etc, that I had believed that we had relegated to our past.  I simplistically accepted the notion of the progress of human liberty in the US, that we had learned, finally, the lessons of the Trail of Tears, of the internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII, of the nightmare of McCarthyism.  Yet now from around every corner I see those same things skulking back into our social order, thoroughly wrapped in the American flag.