Funeral services for Swartz will be held on Tuesday.
Internet Activist and Prodigy Aaron Swartz Dead from Suicide, Family Blames Over-Reaching U.S. Attorneys Office
Internet Activist and Prodigy Aaron Swartz Dead from Suicide, Family Blames Over-Reaching U.S. Attorneys Office
On Saturday, Swartzs mily made a statements saying,Summary Of Easa Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance Licence. Aarons death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. attorneys office and at MIT contributed to his death. The U.S. attorneys office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own communitys most cherished principles.
Two years prior to the MIT incident, Swartz downloaded and released a trove of U.S. Federal Court documents from the PACER system. Like JSTOR, the documents at PACER cost the viewer to read the documents. In that incident, Swartz downloaded 18 million pages.
Internet Activist and Prodigy Aaron Swartz Dead from Suicide, Family Blames Over-Reaching U.S. Attorneys Office
The president of MIT, Raelgw law Alaska Native News-News for the People of the Last Frontier Reif, said on Saturday that the university would initiate an internal investigation into its role in the prosecution of Swartz. I want to express very clearly that I and all of us at MIT are extremely saddened by the death of this promising young man who touched the lives of so many, Reif said in the statement issued Sunday. It pains me to think that MIT played any role in a series of events that have ended in tragedy. Hal Abelson, an electrical engineering professor at MIT was asked by Reif to lead a thorough analysis of MITs involvement from the time that we first perceived unusual activity on our network in ll 2010 up to the present.
Anonymous, the Internet hacking collective, on Sunday night hit many of MITs sites with a Denial of Service attack and also hacked two of MITs sites, turning them into memorials that called for reforms to computer crime laws as well as copyright and intellectual property laws.
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