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Anonymous Takes Over Sentencing Commission Website

The hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide. Read the full story - Click here

Aaron Swartz’s Crime

The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime”

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• Martyr, somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause

What this man did was uphold your rights to free information. From the first man who painted on a cave wall or told a story to his grandchildren to remember, culture has been intrinsically free. It is why you have technology to instantly communicate or share your opinion in this forum. A group of people think they are better than you, smarter than you, mostly because they are wealthy. They believe they can control the flow of information because they think it’s for your best interest. Because you’re not able to properly function as serfs if you understand what's behind the curtain. To those blue collar fools who defend these money men I say bravo. You’re the biggest joke show they enjoy. Your support of that which enslaves you is the butt of their dinner conversation. To those white collar fools sucking up for crumbs while they sell your children's bread I say bravo... You will never be them; you climb your brother’s shoulders and hurt your neighbor. They will never allow you to be them.

To all the rest of us I say do not despair! Your awake, you’re aware. Day by day ground is won and soon enough the pendulum will swing back with a force which will terrify the meek. They have not inherited the earth, they have stolen it. Now it's time we take it back. ~ AchillesFinger

• All that spin and you forget to mention that he broke the law? Good riddance. ~ Bootinureye

• Laws... slavery was the law once... women not being able to vote was the law... conscription was the law... unjust laws are not laws. They are feeble attempts at maintaining control of a free minded people. ~ Tekar

• So, are you suggesting that theft should be made legal? ~ Bootinureye

• Theft of publicly owned and paid for material is not theft. Besides, one cannot steal something intrinsically free, especially when one gives it away for free. ~ AchillesFinger

• Aaron Swartz was a huge loss. The man revolutionized how we get our information sent to us over the internet, at 14 years old! He was a prodigy. And like other prodigious people's in our past (Lysander Spooner, Nikola Tesla, etc.) he was persecuted and ultimately destroyed by the United States Government and their business connections. To lose someone with such a spectacular grasp over the greatest tool ever conceived by man is to lose a great part of this species' intellectual whole. Shame on those that say he was not important. If he wasn't important or able to change things, he wouldn't have been persecuted so blindly and in justly. Thank you Aaron for the RSS feed, thank you Aaron for helping to stop SOPA. Thank you Anonymous for spreading awareness of the corruption that led to this tragic loss. ~ Craig

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Aaron Swartz, Review:

This web site is part of MIT’s review of the events preceding Aaron Swartz’s suicide on January 11, 2013. There have been dozens of questions about these events in the press and on the Net over the past week. But the most important questions are the ones that will come from the MIT community, because we are the ones who will be held to account. IS&T has created this web site so you can suggest questions and issues to guide the review and comment on the questions of others. Please remember that this is about the first phase of the review only – questions about what happened and why. A second phase, where we all deliberate over implications, will follow.