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> didn't DoJ admit Aaron was hounded down mostly because of his political views? No, they admitted that Aaron's manifesto about breaking the law as a moral imp
by mpyne 14y ago
> didn't DoJ admit Aaron was hounded down mostly because of his political views?
No, they admitted that Aaron's manifesto about breaking the law as a moral imperative to support open access to scientific journals was used to support the DoJ's claims that he intended to distribute the millions of scientific journals that he downloaded from JSTOR.
Until the police finally arrested him no one even knew that the network intruder even was Aaron Swartz.