Going after Jews, Christians, Guns, straights, self employed, Conservatives...and and and
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
I’m not sure suicide by a nerdy gay guy who complained of chronic illness and depression for years is too big a surprise.
Thank you for posting. A loss for anyone who values internet freedom and a warning to us all.
Here is a Whitehouse.gov petition, not that it will do any good.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
Dead ?
Who ‘suicided’ him ?
He may not have been to most people's taste here on FR, but the Feds were after him and he was facing decades in prison for "copyright violation" which consisted of downloading obscure content from inaccessible academic journals that nobody would pay for anyway and whose writers probably would have been glad of a bigger audience.
JSTOR is a horrible monopoly that has completely locked up academic journals and indeed many other sources. JSTOR is NOT free, and I don't know where the idiot writer got this impression. They charge something like $25 for an article from an otherwise unread academic journal. The money doesn't go to the authors, but to whoever runs JSTOR.
It's "free" if you're a student in an academic institution whose library has paid a fortune to subscribe to the service, but you're certainly paying in other ways.
I'd like to know who owns JSTOR. Al Gore, perhaps? It's obviously some group who is a friend of Bambi.
Shame. I feel sorry for him. We live in terrible times.
Obama and Holder are anti-Semitic.
ping for later...
Theft is theft. I like the government to prosecute thieves.
The correct name of Holder’s department is the Django-Justice Departmant.
The USA is not the only country on an Earth connected via internet. Other nations and cultures may have had much more respect for such a creative talent. Prayers for the soul of Aaron Swartz.
Second, FR is not DU. It's supposed to be a conservative website. Yet the posters here not only are expressing SYMPATHY for this creepy criminal anarchist, they are justifying his violation of the law by stating that the targets of his crimes were less than user friendly. The rule of law is the rule of law. You don't get to pick and choose which laws you want to obey and which you feel are "unfair" or "okay to violate". If you do, you suffer the consequences. Now the GF and others are traipsing around looking for a deep pocket federal agency to sue. If they get their way, and find criminal sympathizing trial lawyers to work the case, WE the taxpayers will end up making the plaintiffs WEALTHY beyond their wildest dreams. Congratulations. Another MIRACLE in the U.S.A. where criminal behavior nets out a windfall profit.
Looks to me like FR has been seriously compromised. Not one poster here has seen this anarchist for what he was. You're all dumping on the prosecution instead. Wake up. What in tarnation is wrong with you all?