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
You’d need a time machine in order to go back in time to warn a presently deceased person about certain events before they happen. I don’t see how you needed someone to explain this to you.
You don’t see how someone with a time machine can go back in time (with aforementioned time machine) and warn Aaron Swartz to stay away from the cabinet?
I didn’t know this was saying that. I thought they were film references or something. “Here’s what girls do in time travel films, here’s what guys do.”
Savant-genius in our time works on/with and drives a large amount of the early “Web 2.0” era that champions decentralization, openness, and freedom of information
This ethos is carried throughout his work in tech, leading him to mass copy databases that are paywalled or closed access to students, that he had permission to use, and dump the info online for free
JSTOR and MIT get salty about this, set up a sting at the school servers where he’s doing said mass copying
Prosecutor wayyyy overcharges Aaron and seeks to neuter him from using tech, Aaron gets scared and (due in part to a longstanding mental & physical illness) commits suicide
There’s more info and context, but that the broad strokes. Fuck MIT for pushing his prosecution, JSTOR was fine once he stopped uploading their database
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