Aaron was a very brave and brilliant man. Mentally unstable, not at
all, that cheapening charge should be seen as an admitted insecurity
of accusers, for some of them a badge of servitude to power (see
links provided by the poster).
Friends and supporters turned on him after years of high praise and
admiration. The justice system hounded him in response to
institutional and corporate (copyight and intellectural property)
pressure and an amply funded campaign of adverse publicity.
A number of people close to Aaron were coerced into testifying
against him (some have publicly described this coercion).
The fight Aaron courageusly fought and sacrificed his life for
continues unabated.
Pathetically, so does the negativism of profit-maximizers and their
apologists, be they snottily witting or snivelingly coerced.
At 04:03 PM 11/9/2019, you wrote:
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No.
The government did not kill Aaron Swartz. He committed suicide, for
which he alone
is responsible.
Nor was he really going to get any long sentence. The judge had
ruled that he seek mental health
treatment, and he was offered a six month sentence.
He was not found unfit to stand trial.
His partner was worried he was going to hurt himself and didn't want
to leave him
alone but finally had to go to work, since she supported them both.
He committed suicide because he was mentally unstable.
He had also committed a crime, which was indeed breaking and entry
and stealing
copyrighted materials, which is not "taking out too many library
books". Liberation
tech should not be about criminality, yet too often it is. If you
don't like the prices
of academic journals and have no friend in academia to get them for
you, you are
not required to buy them nor entitled to steal them.
Seldom do radicals achieve their desired change by committing crime
along the way that they
view is merely the bending of unjust laws. Often they achieve the opposite.
<https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/the-internet-revolution-has-eaten-another-child.html>https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/the-internet-revolution-has-eaten-another-child.html
https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/aaron-swartz-committed-a-crime-but-would-not-do-the-time.html
<https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/why-alex-stamos-is-completely-wrong-about-aaron-swartz.html>https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/why-alex-stamos-is-completely-wrong-about-aaron-swartz.html
Catherine Fitzpatrick
>US gov killed him, FBI (Fuck Bullshit Intelligence)... <- something
like these sentences should be always put as a reminder how the USA was
and still corrupted.
Thanks for sharing!
Yosem Companys:
> From: Anriette Esterhuysen <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
>
> How many of you remember Aaron Swartz? Time passes so quickly. I was
> happy to see that the Internet Archive is celebrating his work on
> freedom of information in a very innovative way.
>
>
<https://blog.archive.org/2019/11/06/7th-annual-aaron-swartz-day-at-the-internet-archive/>https://blog.archive.org/2019/11/06/7th-annual-aaron-swartz-day-at-the-internet-archive/
>
> For those that do not know who he was:
>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
>
> Anriette
>
>
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