Reddit, Suicide, and Intellectual Property

[The Jay]

If anyone has not heard the news a cofounder of reddit, Aaron Swartz, committed suicide. This by itself would be sad but what makes me make a thread about it is this: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/14/anonymous_hacks_mit_for_aaron_swartz/.

I am disgusted that he was being made an example of by the government even though he did nothing wrong in the minds of most people that I know. I don't know, it is just disgusting.

[Tenka]

RIP.
Decades in American prison is worse than fucking torture, so there's no question the bourgeois "justice" system made him kill himself. He was fighting the good fight, and I hope that more anonymous individuals pick up where he left off.

[Art Vandelay]

RIP. I'd never heard of the guy, but that is a sad story. I thought this part of the article was particularly well done:

Bradley Manning awaits court martial and potentially life in prison after months of unlawful pretrial detention, former CIA agent John Kiriakou blew the whistle on torture and is imprisoned, four anarchists in the Pacific Northwest have been incarcerated without charges for refusing to speak to a federal grand jury. But as Lessig notes, “remember, we live in a world where the architects of the financial crisis regularly dine at the White House — and where even those brought to ‘justice’ never even have to admit any wrongdoing.” And Aaron, a “kid genius,” hanged himself in his New York apartment. It couldn’t be more obvious who gets protection, who gets service.