Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and co-author of XML 1.0 is dead. He committed suicide after being harassed by the government for scraping a website that hosts public domain articles. The website did not press civil charges, but this did not stop the government from pursuing criminal ones.
We know it was murder. Aaron had the least interest on killing himself. He even had goals written down to accomplish before he died. People like him, I would have been a bodyguard for, even though he did shitty code.
We all know he uncovered something from JSTOR, that we all know, that he had to be silenced for. You do not read People getting arrested for downloading and publishing ACM Digital Library journals and articles, or even Oxford University Press.
>>12, I am surprised you do not know. They have several classified documents from many governments on their servers, even confidential agreements documents that puts a shame on many current governments and their fearsome powers. Unfortunately Aaron copied a few kilos of these docs, and had to be put down, in fear his other friends would expose them. Why do you think he was in constant surveillance all the way to his death?
Facebook and Google are US Gov companies, they share info straight to the top. Microsoft is still the US lap dog.
JSTOR technically still poses threat, so much so, they have maintained all of their "non profit" tax bonus, and donations.
As much as I love the concept of jews killing jews, it's nothing more than wishful thinking. He offed himself because he realized he was a dirty kike and that it was the only proper thing to do.
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Anonymous2013-01-12 10:41
>>13
So Aaron just accidentally 30 gb of classified files? No wonder he killed himself to avoid paradox being both a Jew and an idiot. Now he is just an idiot.
>>15, Greg just published the safe for life ones as a empty threat. It did nothing, now that we have Greg under our control, and Aaron's immediate contacts. Regardless, this is all about power, even if the bastards call themselves the chosen.
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Anonymous2013-01-12 12:42
The US government both directly and indirectly leads to the deaths of many smart, white males. This should come as no surprise.
I fucking told you guys to listen to me, and all you could say was, "Why don't you lose some weight before I lose my intellectual shackles!" and "Shave that neckbeard before I shave the oppression from my work!"
>>21 Why were they on JSTOR in the first place?
JSTOR acts as library outsourcing, and government could have accidentally stored there a few restricted papers. Remember how Windows 2000 source code was leaked?
Prosecutor as bully (lessig.tumblr.com)
426 points by guan 2 hours ago | 103 comments
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Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee (w3.org)
231 points by edsu 2 hours ago | 11 comments
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If I get hit by a truck... (aaronsw.com)
365 points by artursapek 4 hours ago | 26 comments
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Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26 (nytimes.com)
87 points by guan 1 hour ago | discuss
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Aaron Swartz commits suicide (mit.edu)
1646 points by bfaviero 12 hours ago | 477 comments
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JSTOR torrent (thepiratebay.se)
88 points by gasull 1 hour ago | 10 comments
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Philip Greenspun: Aaron Swartz (harvard.edu)
90 points by soundsop 2 hours ago | 8 comments
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A Moment Before Dying (aaronsw.com)
59 points by gosub 1 hour ago | 4 comments
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Feds go overboard in prosecuting information activist (2012) (arstechnica.com)
53 points by proksoup 1 hour ago | 2 comments
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Cory Doctorow: RIP, Aaron Swartz (boingboing.net)
396 points by Argorak 6 hours ago | 13 comments
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My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved. (quinnnorton.com)
17 points by rufo 14 minutes ago | discuss
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Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office. (whitehouse.gov)
20 points by olefoo 30 minutes ago | 2 comments
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Soulmate lost. RIP Aaron Swartz (alexdong.com)
108 points by mattdeboard 3 hours ago | 3 comments
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Aaron Swartz's Legacy (vivtek.com)
78 points by Vivtek 2 hours ago | discuss
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Aaron Swartz really did co-author RSS spec at age 14 (cadenhead.org)
166 points by ck2 5 hours ago | 5 comments
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Guerilla Open Access Manifesto (Aaron Swartz) (pastebin.com)
12 points by kanzure 19 minutes ago | discuss
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Aaron's domain registration runs out in Sept. We should archive it in his memory (networksolutions.com)
194 points by riordan 6 hours ago | 28 comments
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Aaron Swartz's Y Combinator Interview (aaronsw.com)
69 points by nqureshi 3 hours ago | discuss
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A Chat With Aaron Swartz (blogoscoped.com)
128 points by danso 5 hours ago | 7 comments
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Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did
248 points by Pitarou 3 hours ago | 47 comments
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How to be more productive (aaronsw.com)
119 points by zeynalov 4 hours ago | 1 comment
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Public.resource.org's touching tribute to Aaron Swartz (resource.org)
70 points by riordan 4 hours ago | 1 comment
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The void of losing someone you don't know (markbao.com)
37 points by markbao 2 hours ago | discuss
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Many JSTOR articles are now (sort of) free to the public (libraryjournal.com)
106 points by sehugg 5 hours ago | 7 comments
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Aaron Swartz was a key contributor to Markdown (daringfireball.net)
60 points by ck2 3 hours ago | 2 comments
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (suicidepreventionlifeline.org)
326 points by sethbannon 11 hours ago | 36 comments
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Aaron Swartz on illness and depression (aaronsw.com)
180 points by neilk 8 hours ago | 18 comments
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Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz: Image Atlas (imageatlas.org)
61 points by dzuc 3 hours ago | 4 comments
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Aaron Swartz: How To Get A Job Like Mine (jottit.com)
297 points by pathik 11 hours ago | 13 comments
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Show HN: My first python web app - What do you want to do this year? (thisyr.com)
51 points by jessratcliffe 4 hours ago | 11 comments
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Anonymous2013-01-12 15:35
Where are the JSTOR articles he ripped? I hit those paywalls every now and then.
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Anonymous2013-01-12 15:38
HN's frontpage is entirely about that guy. I just want a torrent with the articles. Everything else is useless and retarded.
There it was. Looks like that old torrent with scientific papers from the XVIIth century. I don't really give a shit, there were no computer scientists at the time.
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Anonymous2013-01-12 15:44
>>28
There are also torrents of IEEE papers you know.
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Anonymous2013-01-12 15:51
>>29
I know. A ridiculously small amount of them. You never know what you're going to need.
The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0 specification at age 14, founded Infogami which later merged with the popular social news site reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption.