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"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. A

• Haasy 13y ago
  Except 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 ago
    However, 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."
    • diminoten 13y ago
      Aaron didn't fall under the MIT support umbrella. These folks do. Stop making unhelpful comparisons, please.
    • judk 13y ago
      Aside from Aaron's cass, that information is an interesting bit of nepotism regarding MIT Media Lab and the Schwartz children.