Instead, this political, vindictive creature http://wgbhnews.org/post/carmen-ortiz-spotlight-under-fire and her nasty acolytes in search of a high profile "Scalp" pushed him over the edge.
A terrible waste and a horrible use (misuse) of prosecutorial discretion.
How do you know?
Aaron had been talking about suicide years before this, maybe we should just blame reddit?
Edit: Why the downvotes? Fact is that we don't know why Aaron killed himself, but we do know that he had a prior history of depression and in 2007 posted what seemed very much like a suicide note.
Frankly, making claims like "If x had (not) done y he'd still be alive" and presenting them as facts is straight up disgusting.
We do know he wouldn't have been in the situation in which he ended his life.
Claiming that victims of depression who have killed themselves would have killed themselves anyway is no less disgusting.
I never made such a claim. I specifically brought up the previous depression to make clear that we really don't know what was going on his life and what ended up driving him over the edge.
http://volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/ is a good read btw.
I hope you never forget to lock your doors.
> They didn't stop guests from having unfettered access to JSTOR.
They actively took steps to prevent Swartz from scraping it
>They decided the best course of action was to send police after Swartz.
Yes, for breaking and entering. Fuck MIT.
Eh...this wasn't a private residence but a building where the public had free access. And it's hard to argue that they "forgot to lock" the doors when they didn't bother locking them even after they realized Swartz was going in there.
> Yes, for breaking and entering. Fuck MIT.
For going in to an unlocked room in a public building.
At that point they kind of needed to know WHY Swartz was going there.
>For going in to an unlocked room in a public building.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-0-16EA7DFB...
He did feel it necessary to cover his face.