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Topic: After Aaron Swartz |
After Aaron Swartz
Reuters, by Jocelyn Sze
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Posted By:Drive, 1/18/2013 3:37:39 PM
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| Brilliant young hackers, striving to build tools to change the world, are killing themselves. Just last week: Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and fierce open access activist, took his life at 26. There have been other high-profile suicides in the tech world in recent years: Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of the distributed social network Diaspora, dead at 22. Len Sassaman, a highly-regarded cypherpunk who believed in cryptography and privacy as tools of freedom, dead at 31. Dan Haubert, co-founder of the Y-Combinator funded startup Ticketstumbler, dead at 25.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Feebie, 1/18/2013 4:05:50 PM (No. 9125020)
This is unacceptable.
People should not fear their government.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/18/2013 4:22:06 PM (No. 9125041)
It is hard to blame them... They probably believed as I have believed for a long time as I watched the changes in society and the high tech revolution. Dystopia is coming. Tyranny is coming. Even Swartz was being persecuted (not prosecuted). 40 years for breaking into a subscription site?? Anyway, I have been dreading what is coming for about 20 years. I just kept hoping that I was wrong. But then again...I also believe there will be a great backlash. I just don´t know which side will end up winning.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cshoff, 1/18/2013 4:57:28 PM (No. 9125119)
In an earlier, less medicated time so many deaths in a peer group would raise the question ´WHO IS KILLING OUR HACKERS?´
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Theeo, 1/18/2013 5:12:59 PM (No. 9125155)
Brilliant but not wise. They all lost touch with God when they narcissistically pulled their hands unto themselves.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
noproblems, 1/18/2013 6:11:19 PM (No. 9125256)
i feel sorry for any one that feel suicide is an answer.
but, these people are arrogant beyond belief and apparently cant deal with having to live under the same set of rules as you and i do.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mossley, 1/18/2013 7:17:57 PM (No. 9125373)
Totally agree with #5. This fool knowingly broke the law and then bragged about it. He practically dared the authorities to come after him, and then he was shocked when they did!
Brilliance and common sense often don´t come in the same package. Add in a history of mental illness and prior suicide threats, and his family should have been getting him medical help.
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