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I don't consider Aaron's death a suicide, either. It was not exactly a Magnitsky-style beaten-in-prison death, but overly-zealous prosecutors trying to "make an
by andreyf 9y ago
I don't consider Aaron's death a suicide, either. It was not exactly a Magnitsky-style beaten-in-prison death, but overly-zealous prosecutors trying to "make an example" of him had more to do with his death than mental illness.
Note what happened, in that context, when someone who was not an American political activist did what criminal prosecutors were going after Aaron for:
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-woman-has-illegally-uploaded-millions-of-journal-articles-in-an-attempt-to-open-up-science https://www.sciencealert.com/this-woman-has-illegally-upload...
- tzs 9y agoThe scihub woman isn't doing any of the thing Swartz was being prosecuted for. All she's doing is copyright infringement.
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