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Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz found dead.

reply to PX Eliezer
Only 26 years old - very sad.

reply to PX Eliezer
Watch this to learn more:

»www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl···2dFngFsg

reply to PX Eliezer
RIP Aaron

reply to PX Eliezer
Apparently he had suffered from depression for a long time. So sad he didn't get the help he needed.

Please don't dismiss his death so lightly. Watch the video I posted and try to understand what we've lost.

reply to PX Eliezer
Statement from his family:
»talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2···ef=fpblg

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»now.msn.com/aaron-swartz-profess···-suicide

Professor slams prosecutors for helping drive Aaron Swartz to suicide

A Harvard professor and friend of Aaron Swartz says prosecutors should feel shame for their role in driving a "kid genius" to suicide. In an angry, grief-stricken Tumblr post, activist and legal scholar Lawrence Lessig condemned "the absurdity of the prosecutor’s behavior" in hounding Swartz for the alleged theft of online academic articles, even though the articles' owner, JSTOR, declined to pursue the case. Lessig also wrote that any prosecutor who thought Swartz’s treatment was appropriate "is either an idiot or a liar," adding that the government had pursued the open-source activist "as if it had caught the 9/11 terrorists red-handed."

Please don’t pathologize this story.

No doubt it is a certain crazy that brings a person as loved as Aaron was loved (and he was surrounded in NY by people who loved him) to do what Aaron did. It angers me that he did what he did. But if we’re going to learn from this, we can’t let slide what brought him here.

I've no doubt the prosecution probably pushed him over the edge, and yes, the prosecutor is to blame for that. But it appears that he had issues long before that started.

I don't want to get into a debate over what caused him to do what he did, that is something we will probably never know.

reply to Just Bob
An unfortunate sad loss for all of us, thx PX E & JB!

reply to PX Eliezer
There's something about this that deeply offends me. It frustrates me that I lack the articulation to put it into words. That I have to live in a society that would hound such a man to suicide leaves me with some very strong feelings.

reply to PX Eliezer
This is from 2002:
»www.aaronsw.com/2002/continuity

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reply to PX Eliezer
Speaking as a bipolar person who has been treated like shit because of it, I can tell you, people readily exploit you once they know you deal with a mental issue like depression. Some get their jollies with it. Some just take advantage of you. Clinical depression is pure hell, and being sad isn't depression, sadly, the folks that most need to understand are the quickest to dismiss...
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reply to PX Eliezer
Here's an article by Aaron's expert witness that should cast great doubt on the prosecution's case:

»unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-tru···s-crime/

Thank you for that.

reply to PX Eliezer
Putting it into context. It's nearly an hour long but Arron died for it, so please give it due consideration.

The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge ~ Lawrence Lessig, 18 April 2011

Another article about this: »news.yahoo.com/what-we-learned-f···z;_ylv=3