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by pms 14y ago
Why on earth this is the first news on the front page? In the end this article is rumor-like and just speculating on the cause of his death...
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by pms 14y ago
> "As federal prosecutors, our mission includes protecting the use of computers and the Internet by enforcing the law as fairly and responsibly as possible." Protecting? Just like they protect "free knowledge"?
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by pms 14y ago
"Real reform of the CFAA requires two steps (1) a comprehensive rethinking of the statute, esp. since solving the Lori Drew problem would not have saved Aaron and (2) engaging not with the White House, but with Senator Leahy, who is the pol
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by pms 14y ago
I think these are actually one of the few things that can be done, showing the government, that there are many people unhappy about this case out there, and that something has to be changed. It's true, that these petitions are not big deals
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by pms 14y ago
"There is also an ongoing petition to fire assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann, also connected with the events that led to the tragic suicide of prodigy Aaron Swartz. That petition has yet to reach its goal." https://petitions.whitehouse
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by pms 14y ago
Didn't Ms. Ortiz argue that she cannot comment on Swartz's case because of the respect to his family? And now his own husband breaks the silence? Isn't this all superficial and for their own profit? So, here was a trade: 6-months in a jail
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by pms 14y ago
It wasn't ever exposed in the first page of the Guardian, or maybe in the first hours, but last 2 days it wasn't there. Still, it got few times more shares than any other article on Guardian about Swartz, even though other ones were exposed
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Why Aaron Swartz is becoming a martyr, and why you should care(qz.com)
1 points by pms 14y ago|0 comments
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What a Small World: Carmen Ortiz, Aaron Swartz, and Tarek Mehanna(translationexercises.wordpress.com)
36 points by pms 14y ago|5 comments
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by pms 14y ago
There are already places for open-access articles, mainly PLOS and arXiv. PLOS stands for Public Library Of Science and was create around 10 years ago. It has got quite popular among scientist, and it's peer reviewed. However, it charges th