Yes. I'm glad something's happening to prevent recurrences, but I hate that it was necessary at all. It's more than likely that no politician would have cared a

Yes. I'm glad something's happening to prevent recurrences, but I hate that it was necessary at all. It's more than likely that no politician would have cared at all if he hadn't killed himself and that had caused a large amount of PR/public outcry. I can't remember the last time I saw a post on Hacker News about donating to Aaron's defense fund, or about how ridiculous the charges against him were. (We already knew about JSTOR--why didn't we care?) There have been at least 300 different posts about him after he killed himself. I blame myself for not doing enough, too, but I don't do something _because_ he committed suicide. This piling-on of posts seems odd and morbid to me. I'd hate to live in a country/world where the best choice if you want to effect change really is to kill yourself. (As a thought exercise to show how the death was "necessary": How much time have you spent caring about/working to assist in a similar, active case after Aaron's suicide?)