The Reuters reporter hid it. He had an agreement with Beto to do so.
No hiding took place, he wanted a comment from Beto and Beto said he wouldn't provide a comment till a later date, which delayed the story.
As for teenage behavior, you should review recent events to understand why it's important. Your rules, amigo.
Rape and attempted rape are extremely serious behaviors. Also it isn't "my rules" - it is the general view of society as a whole.
Going over $1,500 when stealing phone service was a felony. People were, in fact, arrested for it and charged.
There is no evidence that he went over 1,500$. Also it was generally only charged against organized crime and as part of other more serious charges.
The source is the Reuters reporter and a basic understanding of human nature
Wrong on both counts, the Reuters article didn't at all say what you seem to think it said.
What you don't know about the 1980's and 1990's hacker scene is that long distance was a service you had to pay for in that era.
I did in fact know that.
And, this may shock you, many times the BBS you accessed was in another city or even another state.
Not shocked or even unaware. However cDc was local for Beto so his activity likely didn't involve a lot of long distance.
I was around for the 1980's and 1990's computer scene, got my computer engineering degree around that time. I have probably forgotten more about that hacking era than you'll ever know but, by all means kid, tell me what it was like.
And yet you seemed blissfully unaware of phreaking. So perhaps you have indeed forgotten more about that hacking era, but apparently you seem to have forgotten rather nearly everything.
Also his involvement was writing and chatting there haven't been any reports that his involvement went beyond that.
And stealing phone service.
Yep, it was entirely wrong of him to do. So is distributing mix tapes. Also "fair use" is an affirmative defense - it has to be litigated each time and only then can you assert fair use and determined non-infringing.
Oh, well, everyone was doing it. Why didn't you say that right up front? Everyone was doing it, that kind of makes it perfectly legal right? You really should stop with the logical fallacy thing.
I really thought you were smart enough to understand the reasoning, sorry for over estimating you. I didn't assert it was legal. I was pointing out that we as a society have legislated certain behaviors to be illegal, but certain subsets of illegal behavior, when engaged in by youths and young adults are fairly normative - and thus not indicative of a lack of morals latter in life.
Generally these behaviors are crimes that we considered 'victimless' (drinking, experimenting with drugs) or where the victim is a corporation and the crime doesn't deprive the corporation of goods, but rather denies them profits on goods or services with little or no marginal cost (such as copyright violation, or service violations such as sharing logins to netflix) - and where the actual losses are largely imaginary or grossly exaggerated.
From an early teen to late 20’s, Beto has a habit of thinking the laws that govern you don’t apply to him. Now we’re supposed to think he’s no longer of such a mindset because... reasons!
Has anyone you known ever consumed alcohol underage (perhaps even yourself?)? Have all of those individuals turned out to be hardened criminals? If not, can you perhaps see the flaw in your reasoning? (Ok, that was a rhetorical question - you are incapable of seeing any flaws in your reasoning - but I think the flaw is obvious to other readers).
Actually, we know why. It’s because he’s a Democrat. Kavanaugh drank beer as a teen and it was an outrage. Beto engages repeatedly in illegal behavior and no big deal.
Again, reasoning skills of a two year old. Kavanaugh was credibly accused of attempted rape, and in my opinion obviously perjured himself regarding his drinking as a teen and young adult. The concern was over the credible accusation of attempted rape and his current and past purjury, the alcohol was what he was perjuring himself over.
Beto's illegal behavior continued into his late 20's.
Source? I don't think there is any source anywhere that claims that.
Before you hang your hat on mixtapes, you might read up on something called "fair use".
I'm familiar with fair use. I'm also aware that the vast majority of mix tapes (especially when distributed to friends) are not in fact fair use.
When you supported a serial rapist for president, you lost the moral high ground on fake accusations of rape.
I didn't support Trump for President (oh that isn't who you meant by serial rapist?). If you meant Clinton, I didn't support him for President either although there were no such accusations by his alleged victims against him at the time he was running. Also there is no evidence Clinton is a serial rapist. There is one plausible accusation with serious credibility issues that he is a rapist. I can perfectly understand those who find it credible, but also find it perfectly understandable for those who don't find it credible - it is an issue about which reasonable people can legitimately disagree on the interpretation of the evidence in terms of finding it credible.
"Appears" to have engaged in perjury, what a load.
Yes 'appears' is a dramatic understatement, Kavanaugh by any reasonable standard has perjured himself in my opinion, but I have a tendency to use hedge words when referring to behavior regarding criminal conduct.