My understanding is that the conviction was for deliberately (disregarding the accused's claim to the contrary) publicly sharing his employer's proprietary source code and private keys. Assuming this is actually true, then it's justified that there are legal consequences for sabotaging his employer like this, and most countries have laws penalising such behaviour.

Meanwhile, companies and governments are allowed to 'accidentally' expose all sorts of private information about millions of people without any meaningful punishment.

DJI should take the majority of the blame for not protecting its private keys with hardware security modules.

>Companies and nations this cruel have no place in modern society.

That's exactly the direction modern society IS moving towards

There's no reason to be that dramatic. The US often has worse impacts on people's lives. If you're poor and uneducated in this country, one mistake can lead to a lifetime of debt and a cycle of prisons, hospitals, mental health facilities, homeless shelters, and so on. There is no significant social safety net for a large swath of the population (we're talking tens of millions of people) and people's lives are often left in shambles by a system that doesn't operate on empathy.

But also, this person is only facing six months and $30,000. That is no reason to consider suicide. Of course it sucks, but their life isn't over.

What does any of this have to do with a Chinese developer in China? This is just whataboutism.

No, it’s perspective because he’s replying to the comment, “Companies and nations this cruel have no place in modern society.”

This reminds me of Aaron Swartz‘s case.

In which way? In the way that Aaron Swartz accidentally broke into a closed area and extracted copyrighted material and then apologized for being so clumsy?

No he means in the way they pressured a young programmer into killing himself as retribution for just looking at some research papers.

The similarity is the ott aspect.

Feel free to ask more questions.