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   13 January 2013, evening time

Aaron Swartz committed suicide over the weekend. He was 26 years old. He was being prosecuted quite heavily by the US government at the time of his death for downloading files from JSTOR. Laurence Lessig and Alex Stamos have both written articles about the case that are well worth your time to read. Update: Another perspective: he was funny.

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  1. A Time for Silence.

    by ramanan on January 21 2013, 10:13 am   #

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