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[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] QuantumSparkles 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Aaron Swartz Didn't Kill Himself

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean, I think we know he probably did, unfortunately.

He believed he was facing a lifetime in prison.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

And the people pushing for that punishment were the ones that caused it, pushing someone into committing suicide is as good murder
his blood is on their hands

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like something the D E E P S T A T E would say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who is this Deeps Tate guy you're talking about? I thought there were only two dipshits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Deep State is older brother to Firefly actress Jewel Staite, and belligerent younger brother Islamic State.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Talk about a diamond in the rough. Jewel is a treasure!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He was arrested for bulk downloading PDFs?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

he was arrested to make an example.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

In the same way that whistleblowing or "leaking" evidence of a crime is punished far more severely than any crime. It's basically a death sentence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

that’s very fucked up

i’d say to him to install a small computer or something (raspi?), leave it there and leak the pdfs slowly - would take weeks, maybe months

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Unless you misplaced a decimal point somewhere and we're pretty sure they're gonna notice 80,000 PDFs copied! D: