#aaron shwartz

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What's the most important thing in the world you could be working on right now?  And if you're not working on it, why not?

Aaron Schwartz

[bodacious-energizedprotodermis]

What is "Aaron's Law?"

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Ivy league educated and wealthy, Aaron dealt with his indictment so badly because he thought he was part of a special class of people that this didn’t happen to. I am from a rundown shack in Arkansas. I spent many years thinking people from families like his got better treatment than me. Now I realize the truth: The beast is so monstrous it will devour us all.

Weev, iPad Hack Statement of Responsibilty, TechCrunch

Andrew Auernheimer, grey-hat hacker, troll - and yet another victim of politically-motivated prosecutions against tech activists who have caused no harm - only embarrassed the powers that be.

Reminds me of the Alfie Meadows case: the young student who was beaten and nearly killed by police during the 2010 student protests - then charged with assault himself. Alfie was a friend of friends, someone I’d met at the Middlesex occupation against the closure of their philosophy department. The prosecution was a turning point for me - it scared me; I had thought I (and the people around me) were part of the special class of people this didn't happen to. It was the first time I really confronted the reality of state power backed up by violence, and repression of dissent, and the police as a gang who would flout justice (who would mete out summary injustice) to serve their own, political ends.

I know, from where I stood before, that statements like Weev’s above sound like hyperbole - until it happens to you, or near to you, and you see they’re really not. I still don’t know what I should - or can - be doing in response.

[gjujujug]

Sii curioso, leggi tanto, sperimenta! Ciò che la maggior parte della gente chiama intelligenza, in fondo non è altro che curiosità.

Aaron Shwartz

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Aaron Swartz- Reddit Co-founder R.I.P via czebrda

Harassed by the US government for trying to publish JSTOR journal scientific articles for free, Aaron Schwartz commits suicide at the age of 26. He was a super talented visionary, who created a site exactly like wikipedia when he was 13 and became a co-author and co-editor of RSS 1.0 when he was 14. In 2010, he founded DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills SOPA/PIPA." Despite his young age he managed to change the way we use the internet these days. The pursuation of free information for everyone cost him his life.

Sources:

http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html?comments#comments

https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget