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[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aaron Swartz Didn't Kill Himself

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean, I think we know he probably did, unfortunately.

He believed he was facing a lifetime in prison.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

And the people pushing for that punishment were the ones that caused it, pushing someone into committing suicide is as good murder
his blood is on their hands

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like something the D E E P S T A T E would say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who is this Deeps Tate guy you're talking about? I thought there were only two dipshits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Deep State is older brother to Firefly actress Jewel Staite, and belligerent younger brother Islamic State.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Talk about a diamond in the rough. Jewel is a treasure!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He was arrested for bulk downloading PDFs?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

he was arrested to make an example.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

In the same way that whistleblowing or "leaking" evidence of a crime is punished far more severely than any crime. It's basically a death sentence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

that’s very fucked up

i’d say to him to install a small computer or something (raspi?), leave it there and leak the pdfs slowly - would take weeks, maybe months

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Unless you misplaced a decimal point somewhere and we're pretty sure they're gonna notice 80,000 PDFs copied! D: