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Re: Aaron Swartz

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Post by werid »

genwin wrote: post #4

Please sign the petition to oust Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-... . It needs 14K more signatures by Feb. 11, so share it. Regardless what you may think of the petition's wording, no one should be allowed to continue to do what's obviously wrong with impunity. Ortiz (Heymann's boss) has indicated that she has no intention of stopping extorting ple…

how many of these petitions have led to anything besides a little more than a standard response?

Re: Aaron Swartz

#32

Post by jacquesm »

thelonius_monk wrote: post #21
dmix wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of the great minds in history have accepted this fact and viewed death as a very real possibility by adopting views deemed radical by society. But they saw a strong enough morality in what they were doing to perceiver. This dates as far back in human history lore such as in the bible. And probably well before that. Human societies always seems to be well structured to suppress radical thought. I'm curious if the…

A very radical thought in our context would be suggesting that Aaron Swartz is not actually dead, but instead staged his suicide. I realize for a man who is probably dead, that is a very terrible thought to think. But given the fact that the last words on Aaron's last blog post are "STAGED SUICIDE" don't we owe it to somebody like Aaron to think outside the box? Other stupid points include: 0. Footer "I'm not dead ye…

Could you please stop this?

You do realize he was found dead by his uncle?

Are you seriously suggesting his uncle and the NYC medical examiner are part of some conspiracy?

There is enough madness in this world to intentionally add to it.

Re: Aaron Swartz

#33

Post by lizzard »

kragen wrote: post #28
monochromatic wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, "Aaron's Law" would not have materially changed the prosecution in this case. Yet again, a law named after a person is a hastily constructed, poorly thought-out, bad idea. Has there ever been a counterexample to that rule?

Taren endorsed Aaron's Law in her eulogy, or at least in the transcript I read. I assume she'd read it first.

In SF at the memorial she mentioned it as a good try but not good enough.

Re: Aaron Swartz

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Post by mcherm »

Anechoic wrote: post #19
tyang wrote: post #6

Call your Congressperson and urge them to pass Aaron's Law. Aaron’s Law is in the process of being introduced and debated by members of Congress. The bill would fix the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to prevent the type of prosecutorial abuse that led to the death of Aaron Swartz. Aaron’s Law is being introduced by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and is only two pages long. You can view a draft here: http://1.usa.gov/…

Call your Congressperson and urge them to pass Aaron's Law. Sorry but no. I am going to contact my Congress critters and urge them for justice system reform. At best "Aaron's Law" will help one small demographic when the problem is much, much larger.

Why? Are both too much to ask?

Re: Aaron Swartz

#36

Post by pygy_ »

genwin wrote: post #4

Please sign the petition to oust Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-... . It needs 14K more signatures by Feb. 11, so share it. Regardless what you may think of the petition's wording, no one should be allowed to continue to do what's obviously wrong with impunity. Ortiz (Heymann's boss) has indicated that she has no intention of stopping extorting ple…

This petition will not make it without some major publicity.

It got 300 signatures in the last four days (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5115555).

Any idea of places that could help amplify signature requests?

Re: Aaron Swartz

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Post by Anechoic »

mcherm wrote: post #35
Anechoic wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Call your Congressperson and urge them to pass Aaron's Law. Sorry but no. I am going to contact my Congress critters and urge them for justice system reform. At best "Aaron's Law" will help one small demographic when the problem is much, much larger.

Why? Are both too much to ask?

One topic helps everyone, the other helps a select few. I'm not interested in helping a select few.

Re: Aaron Swartz

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Post by kragen »

lizzard wrote: post #33
kragen wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taren endorsed Aaron's Law in her eulogy, or at least in the transcript I read. I assume she'd read it first.

In SF at the memorial she mentioned it as a good try but not good enough.

Aha, thanks for the update. The one at the Internet Archive? I watched her speech last night (and her tearjerking poetry reading at the end) but I don't remember anything about that.

Re: Aaron Swartz

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Post by kragen »

lizzard wrote: post #33
kragen wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taren endorsed Aaron's Law in her eulogy, or at least in the transcript I read. I assume she'd read it first.

In SF at the memorial she mentioned it as a good try but not good enough.

Aha, thanks for the update. The one at the Internet Archive? I watched her speech last night (and her tearjerking poetry reading at the end) but I don't remember anything about that.
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