It's really hard not to let sadness over Aaron Swartz give way to anger over what the government was doing to him http://is.gd/JdwrgS
@ggreenwald Didn't he download the entire jstor library? How do writers make a living if they can't get paid because their work is stolen?
@mitchsmckenzie The writers aren't paid - the private corporations are that end up owning it - that's the whole point.
@ggreenwald are you upset that he could have been punished at all or that the punishment was potentially very severe?
@jmood88 The latter.
@ggreenwald Let it give way. Ideally, this would be a Tunisian-apple-seller moment.
@ggreenwald What odds on MIT having the decency to admit its fault in this?
@ggreenwald @ioerror yes. But suicide is complex. It's causes can't be assumed.
@ggreenwald @ioerror basically, DoJ action just as wrong before as after
@ggreenwald Well, he wasn't the same age as one of BO's kids, so no sympathy from him.
@punkboyinsf this punk said this about Aron @Gwarfdaed Suicide is cowardly. Lots of people go through far worse and fight everyday to live.