[liberationtech] Remember Aaron Swartz

[Catherine Fitzpatrick]

 No.
The government did not kill Aaron Swartz. He committed suicide, for which he aloneis 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 himalone 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 stealingcopyrighted materials, which is not "taking out too many library books". Liberationtech should not be about criminality, yet too often it is. If you don't like the pricesof academic journals and have no friend in academia to get them for you, you arenot required to buy them nor entitled to steal them.
Seldom do radicals achieve their desired change by committing crime along the way that theyview 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.htmlhttps://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

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 <anriette at apc.org>
> 
> 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/
> 
> For those that do not know who he was:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
> 
> Anriette
> 
> 

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