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That's a very good point. It's pretty common when a sexual assault happens for the school to handle it internally rather than notify the authorities. Apparently
by Chathamization 11y ago
That's a very good point. It's pretty common when a sexual assault happens for the school to handle it internally rather than notify the authorities. Apparently, this is the case at MIT, and 1 in 6 female students have reported being sexually assaulted[1].
When a school sends police after someone for downloading academic files, and yet decides to not send the police after sex offenders (dealing with them internally and not even expelling them), they have pretty screwed up priorities.
[1] http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N50/surveyresults.html http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N50/surveyresults.html
- briandear 11y agoSwartz wasn't a MIT student and thus 'dealing with it internally' was not an available option. What would they do, put him in detention?
- Chathamization 11y agoAsk Harvard to take away his JSTOR access? It doesn't seem like it would have been difficult to have found some punitive measures that didn't involve the police.
- gnaritas 11y agoYou misunderstand what happened, Harvard wasn't involved, he went onto the MIT campus where he was not a student, to take advantage of their on campus anonymous access to JSTOR, he was abusing MIT's open anonymous policy to get the data and he kept moving around to different terminals whenever they'd kill his access to the one he was at; he finally ended up sneaking into a network closet and plugging directly into the network to get access because the public terminals he'd be using had all been shut down to lock him out. He didn't have access, he was't logged in, he was taking advantage of MIT's anonymous policy.