WTF? http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/aaron-swartz-death-fuels-mit-probe-white-house/story?id=18210596
Where do you think you are, Stella?
Kafkaville, apparently. :x
Quote from: Wuli Fufu on January 15, 2013, 05:00:28 PM
Kafkaville, apparently. :x
Yeah, and nobody else sees that. This is what people WANTED, or they wouldn't PAY FOR IT.
So, when they suddenly snap out of it, naked on the highway with mice up their arses, I don't feel very sorry for them.
Also, you'd have never seen Mohammed Ali or MLK or Gandhi kill themselves. Fuck no.
Doktor's diagnosis:
1. The district attorney is an asshole.
2. The "activist" is an asshole.
3. Everyone's an asshole.
It also occurs to me that I don't remember MLK or Gandhi pleading "not guilty" to ANYTHING.
When old time activists killed themselves, they did it with FIRE like those Vietnamese monks.
Quote from: Wuli Fufu on January 15, 2013, 05:12:29 PM
When old time activists killed themselves, they did it with FIRE like those Vietnamese monks.
Point.
The Secret Service were looking to "make hay" out of Aaron Swartz, in hope of making an example of him.
It's a true tragedy he ended up taking his own life, and I can't see any way in which the pressure on him from the farce of a legal system in the US, which lets bankers who launder money for terrorists and state-backed tortuerers walk free, could not have contributed to his decision to take his own life, regardless of any other reason.
Swartz was a true philanthropist and innovator, and the world is a little bit worse off for his absence.
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2013, 05:13:10 PM
The Secret Service were looking to "make hay" out of Aaron Swartz, in hope of making an example of him.
And that's odd, given that they usually just fabricate shit when they need an example.
QuoteIt's a true tragedy he ended up taking his own life, and I can't see any way in which the pressure on him from the farce of a legal system in the US, which lets bankers who launder money for terrorists and state-backed tortuerers walk free, could not have contributed to his decision to take his own life, regardless of any other reason.
Again, which country was he in? None of this shit was unknown when he went hacking. Is it RIGHT? Fuck no. Is it the way things ARE? Yes.
QuoteSwartz was a true philanthropist and innovator, and the world is a little bit worse off for his absence.
Well, I'd rather have him around than the DA. Or the bankers you mention.
Very strange. Were the huge jail terms even likely? I would have thought he would have been quite optimistic about his situation. If nothing else he could pretty much ensure any of his opinions or statements would reach a substantial audience, and if the sentence was draconian, use that public voice to do something.
Either way, let the conspiracy theories begin.
I bet Zuckerberg did it. Shifty bastard.
The jail terms were unlikely, but he would have gone bankrupt trying to fight it.
And given Swartz was not exactly poor (he made his first million before he was 20, I believe), that should just show how fucked anyone would be in his position.
Prosecutors knew Swartz was a suicide risk
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/15/humanity-deficit/bj8oThPDwzgxBSHQt3tyKI/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw
This, predictably, did not cause them to change their methods or the proposed penalties for his acts.
Of course, this should come as no surprise to a judicial system who uses the suicidal nature of a suspect they have been pressuring for three years as reason for painting him as a greater security threat (http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-says-oregon-bomb-suspect-originally-wanted-blow-051138228.html).