Rep. Alan Grayson Honors Aaron Swartz - Truthdig

Rep. Alan Grayson Honors Aaron Swartz - Truthdig
"Aaron Swartz, the Internet freedom advocate who committed suicide in mid-January, was an intern in Florida Congressman Alan Grayson’s office after the onset of the economic crisis. Grayson recently paid tribute to Swartz at a memorial service in Washington, D.C."

The Other Aaron’s Law: How FASTR Could Help Americans Access The Research They Paid For

The Other Aaron’s Law: How FASTR Could Help Americans Access The Research They Paid For: Just over a month after internet folk hero and activist Aaron Swartz ended his own life, a bipartisan group of law-makers have introduced legislation that would make progress on a cause near and dear to his heart: Open access to publicly funded research. The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), introduced this [...]/p

From Bradley Manning to Aaron Swartz -- The Government's Inhumane Persecution of Brave Truth Tellers | Alternet

From Bradley Manning to Aaron Swartz -- The Government's Inhumane Persecution of Brave Truth Tellers | Alternet
"The Justice Department’s legal assault on Swartz is one of many attacks on people who carried important information into the public realm."

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A Line Has Been Crossed: Anonymous Hacks DOJ | Common Dreams

A Line Has Been Crossed: Anonymous Hacks DOJ | Common Dreams
"Launching "Operation Last Resort," Anonymous twice hacked the Justice Department's Sentencing Commission this weekend to protest the death of Aaron Swartz and a legal system "wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control (and) power." The group threatened to release Justice Department data if the government fails to reform flawed cyber crime laws that allow almost unfettered prosecutorial power, and then turned the website into a videogame and Guy Fawkes mask proclaiming, “We do not forgive. We do not forget"."

New Questions for Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor, Whose Career Is Filled with Cases of Picking on the Weak | Alternet

New Questions for Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor, Whose Career Is Filled with Cases of Picking on the Weak | Alternet
"Although the conduct of Ms. Ortiz’s office may seem disproportionately harsh, this is unfortunately par for the course. Rather than a procedure dictated from Washington, U.S. attorneys and local D.A.’s enjoy broad discretion in the charges they press. Thanks to tough-on-crime laws and mandatory-minimum sentencing, prosecutors are able to extort—if they so choose—a quick end to the proceedings and a headline-worthy admission of guilt. To single out the conduct of Carmen Ortiz as an anomaly of America’s system of mass incarceration would be to misunderstand its character. She is a symptom of the entire disease."

Anonymous Hacks MIT Calling for Systemic Reforms | Common Dreams

Anonymous Hacks MIT Calling for Systemic Reforms | Common Dreams
"In response to what has been described as prosecutorial bullying, inflated sentences, "grotesque miscarriage of justice" and subsequent tragedy of Aaron Swartz's suicide, the hacker collective Anonymous broke into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website over the weekend and replaced the homepage with a tribute, “In Memoriam, Aaron Swartz.”

Swartz, an outspoken advocate of open information, had been recently embroiled in a legal battle over digital copyright for allegedly harvesting four million academic papers from MIT's JSTOR online database."