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"the DoJ sees someone bent on forcibly publishing every closed database pertaining to the public interest, laws be damned. ...longwinded rather tangent

"the DoJ sees someone bent on forcibly publishing every closed database pertaining to the public interest, laws be damned. ...longwinded rather tangental story about your childhood... † I don't know Aaron Swartz personally and am not asserting any of this to be true." classy... Anyway, the primary issue with your little story here is you are taking a single encounter with a single person and making a generalization about an entire profession with it. A positive generalization sure, but still a generalization (and as someone who on occasion reads the news, one that does not jive with my perception of reality).

tptacek 15y ago
I have no idea what you are trying to say here. Are you offended by the idea that someone might have an interpretation of the actions of the DoJ other than mendacious pettiness? That literally seems to be the only point you're trying to make: "you said something positive about the DoJ". If you read the comment more carefully --- I apologize for making that harder for you by being long-winded --- you'll see that I'm not even defending the prosecution; just offering a theory for it other than pettiness.
- burgerbrain 15y ago
  "I think people on HN don't fully appreciate the extent to which prosecutors and judges take the law seriously. They've dedicated their life to it." That is what I object to. Your story is not evidence of that assertion.