RIP Aaron Swartz
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- animatedgif0
Apparently he wanted his entire hard drive uploaded to his website in the even of his death
- whatthefunk0
Strange, I live in this building and had no idea this happened.
- wtf, yeah, I live in this building http://www.dnainfo.c…whatthefunk
- I live in this building too!
What are the chances?!detritus - Oh. I don't live in that bulding.detritus
- http://www.theplexbr…omg
- that's the one - strange day today around herewhatthefunk
- I USED LIVE IN THAT PLACEutopian
- mg330
Great interview with him when he was 14.
http://chicagoist.com/2013/01/14…
When I was 14 I just wanted to see a girl naked, play guitar, and skateboard.
- yurimon0
LA times.
- uuuuuu0
Aaron Swartz’s Suicide Triggers Response from Top U.S. Lawmakers,
http://business.time.com/2013/01…Prosecutor in Aaron Swartz 'hacking' case comes under fire,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_…
- yurimon0
Petition to get the DA in the case fired. is it possible?
- autoflavour0
totally different angle..
- robotron3k0
I heard this from an insider about 20 minutes ago, once the Federal prosecutors took over from the MIT complant there was no way on earth to back down. It became a federal offense and the machine started rolling. He was found guilty and they wanted to give him 6 months minimum but he was not the kind of person to be told what to do, what time to wake up and what time to eat. The guy was wealthy as all get out but he didn't even own a car and the Feds could not track him-but they wanted him to be as example to others. He decided to make his life become a higher purpose for all and took his own life. That escalates things to a higher level as it's done and now people are talking about him.
- I don't know about his lawyer. first thing to you do is to challenge jurisdiction especially in federal meddling.yurimon
- sounds like someone who reads the newsuuuuuu
- the governments are working too hard to protect the pockets of the rich, than protect the freedoms of the manyomg
- "he decided to make his life become a higher purpose for all and took his own life..". what does that even mean? wouldn't be better if he were alive fighting the battle with others?dijitaq
- he have a better purpose alive? a cop out and hoping others fight for him?dijitaq
- uuuuuu0
anyone hear of a note or anything left ? not the old posts on his site but a real suicide letter or something
- utopian0
dead?
- instrmntl0
That sucks.
- CygnusZero40
I've never heard of him before, but may the Swartz be with him.
- instrmntl0
Seven on Seven 2012: Aaron Swartz and Taryn Simon
http://rhizome.org/editorial/tag…
- uuuuuu0
1. Tell Congress:
Don't Expand the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Fix It!The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is the law under which Aaron Swartz and other innovators and activists have been threatened with decades in prison. The CFAA is so broad that law enforcement says it criminalizes all sorts of mundane Internet use: Potentially even breaking a website's fine print terms of service agreement. Don't set up a Myspace page for your cat. Don't fudge your height on a dating site. Don't share your Facebook password with anybody: You could be committing a federal crime. (Read more here.)
It's the vagueness and over breadth of this law that allows prosecutors to go after people like Aaron Swartz, who tragically committed suicide earlier this year. The government threatened to jail him for decades for downloading academic articles from the website JSTOR.
Since Aaron's death, activists have cried out for reform of the CFAA. But members of the House Judiciary Committee are actually floating a proposal to expand and strengthen it -- that could come up for a vote as soon as April 10th!
- uuuuuu0
^ they're doing a QnA on Reddit right now...
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/com…
'We are Demand Progress, Aaron Swartz's partner Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Free Press, Orin Kerr, Jennifer Granick, Lawrence Lessig, Marvin Ammori, Tim Berners Lee.'
- i_monk0
1 year later.
- lodef0
documentary will premier at Sundance in a couple weeks