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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">No.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The government did not kill Aaron Swartz. He committed suicide, for which he alone</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">is responsible.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Nor was he really going to get any long sentence. The judge had ruled that he seek mental health </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">treatment, and he was offered a six month sentence. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">He was not found unfit to stand trial.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">His partner was worried he was going to hurt himself and didn't want to leave him</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">alone but finally had to go to work, since she supported them both.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">He committed suicide because he was mentally unstable.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">He had also committed a crime, which was indeed breaking and entry and stealing</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">copyrighted materials, which is not "taking out too many library books". Liberation</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">tech should not be about criminality, yet too often it is. If you don't like the prices</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">of academic journals and have no friend in academia to get them for you, you are</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">not required to buy them nor entitled to steal them.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Seldom do radicals achieve their desired change by committing crime along the way that they</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">view is merely the bending of unjust laws. Often they achieve the opposite.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><a href="https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/the-internet-revolution-has-eaten-another-child.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/the-internet-revolution-has-eaten-another-child.html</a></span><div><a href="https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/aaron-swartz-committed-a-crime-but-would-not-do-the-time.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/aaron-swartz-committed-a-crime-but-would-not-do-the-time.html</a><br></div></div></div><div id="ydpb778973ayahoo_quoted_3933777551" class="ydpb778973ayahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><a href="https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/why-alex-stamos-is-completely-wrong-about-aaron-swartz.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/why-alex-stamos-is-completely-wrong-about-aaron-swartz.html</a></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Catherine Fitzpatrick<br></div></div><br></div>
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<div><div dir="ltr">>US gov killed him, FBI (Fuck Bullshit Intelligence)... <- something<br clear="none">like these sentences should be always put as a reminder how the USA was<br clear="none">and still corrupted.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Thanks for sharing!<br clear="none"><div class="ydpb778973ayqt8864261546" id="ydpb778973ayqtfd19093"><br clear="none">Yosem Companys:<br clear="none">> From: Anriette Esterhuysen <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:anriette@apc.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">anriette@apc.org</a>><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> How many of you remember Aaron Swartz? Time passes so quickly. I was<br clear="none">> happy to see that the Internet Archive is celebrating his work on<br clear="none">> freedom of information in a very innovative way.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://blog.archive.org/2019/11/06/7th-annual-aaron-swartz-day-at-the-internet-archive/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.archive.org/2019/11/06/7th-annual-aaron-swartz-day-at-the-internet-archive/</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> For those that do not know who he was:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Anriette<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. </a>Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing <a shape="rect" href="mailto:lt-owner@lists.liberationtech.org." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lt-owner@lists.liberationtech.org.</a></div></div></div>
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