[liberationtech] Remember Aaron Swartz

[Rand Strauss]

Catherine,

> "neurologically atypical," which is meant as a badge of pride 

It’s no more a "badge of pride" than black pride, LGBTQ pride, or the pride of being a successful woman in a world that, even 50 years ago, was predominantly built for men with rules that kept it that way. It’s the pride of suddenly learning that one is okay, rather than being some kind of slave, pariah, insane-person or second-class citizen who must be held back from success.

I mentioned it because such people are often much less able to understand themselves and others and society. Probably he had more than normal tunnel vision about his guerrilla tactics and civil disobedience, and had similarly more than normal tunnel vision about the appropriateness of suicide.  Probably he had less than normal understanding of how society would react, and less than normal understanding of his own emotional reactions to punishment.  These are real cognitive differences that tend to make such people more fragile, not proud.



How would SOPA or CISPA have stopped the Russians from submitting propaganda to Facebook and Twitter? 
-r

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