Aaron Swartz dead at 26: an internet activist, a guerrillero in the online guerrilla war for open access to our collectively produced but privately owned knowledge, open access to academic literature sold by corporations like Jstor. Accused for his actions of trying to upload millions of papers for free, he hung himself at 26 says the news. According to his family “[Aaron's death] is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US Attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death.''
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