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MIT failed to support Aaron Swartz, with very dire consequences. Do the right thing, MIT.
by sasd 13y ago
MIT failed to support Aaron Swartz, with very dire consequences.
Do the right thing, MIT.
- diminoten 13y agoDo the right thing, MIT, or we'll kill ourselves! Seriously, can we not do this every time something legally interesting happens at MIT? The two situations are, as demonstrated very aptly above, unrelated.
- goldenkey 13y ago"Do the right thing, MIT, or we'll kill ourselves?" I'm surprised you have the audacity to simplify what happened to Aaron Schwartz to a contrived ultimatum. And it is wholly related, given that Aaron was a member of the MIT community.
- Haasy 13y agoExcept he wasn't a member of the MIT community. He was a Fellow at Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, but not a student or faculty member at MIT.
- goldenkey 13y agoHowever, as the report notes, Swartz had connections to the Institute: "He was a regular visitor to the MIT campus and interacted with MIT people and groups both on campus and off. … He was a member of MIT's Free Culture Group, a regular visitor at MIT's Student Information Processing Board (SIPB), and an active participant in the annual MIT International Puzzle Mystery Hunt Competition. Aaron Swartz's father, Robert Swartz, was (and is) a consultant at the MIT Media Lab. Aaron frequently visited his father there, and his two younger brothers had been Media Lab interns."