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> Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death.

Damning

Is anyone reminded of Alan Turing?

Without any disrepect to Aaron's memory (very sad news), no.

Interested to hear what reminded you, but Turing committed suicide based on an unjust persecution of a minority by society as a whole. While Aaron's situation also involved injustice, I hadn't (and probably wouldn't) link the two.

Did you not feel like his death was the result of authority pushing a him into a corner? Wasn't Turing persecuted by authority as well? Two brilliant tech minds lost before their time.

Aaron was accomplished, but Turing far overshadowed. Turing was forced or compelled to take synthetic estrogen because he was gay as well as being convicted and stripped of his security clearance. The hormone replacement could be seen as rather more directly responsible for his suicide than the still relevant stresses of overzealous prosecution.

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