The death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz is propelling a change to a computer law written before there was an Internet

How a Martyr Makes a Law

The death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz is propelling a change to a computer law written before there was an Internet.

                                    Updated: February  6, 2013 |  9:43 a.m.                                        February  6, 2013 |  8:51 a.m.               
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Congress enacted the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 1984, before there was a World Wide Web. And yet, it took Internet wunderkind Aaron Swartz’s apparent suicide for efforts to reform it to get traction. Sometimes to make a law, it takes a martyr.

Swartz died in the midst of a controversial trial. In 2010, he downloaded millions of academic papers from the JSTOR database. For him, this was likely a political act. He believed all journal information should be free. Federal prosecutors in Boston thought otherwise.

"Aaron didn't go download those articles, knowing that it could cost him his life." —Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman

Even though JSTOR didn't pursue legal action against Swartz, the text of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) allowed for criminal charges. Swartz's allies argued that the criminal proceedings didn't fit the crime, saying federal prosecutors were trying to make an example of him. The word "persecution" — not "prosecution" — often appears in discussions of what happened. He was facing up to 35 years in prison. However, it was more likely that he would serve less than a year in a minimum-security setting. His allies argue that this is what led Swartz to take his own life.

Now, in death, his accomplishments, coupled with his connections in Washington, are galvanizing to establish a law—“Aaron’s Law”— that would exonerate him.

It's hard to talk about Swartz without painting him as a mythical figure. He taught himself to read at the age of three. He invented the RSS protocol during his teenage years. He was a big thinker, and penned manifestos on information freedom. He read economics textbooks for fun. And he cofounded Reddit. He died at 26 years old, leaving many to wonder what potential was lost with him.

There's an emotional weight, a narrative that gets tied to this piece of legislation, which became clear Monday night at a memorial for Swartz on Capitol Hill.

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Consider that Aaron Swartz did not commit suicide but was suicided. Hanging is modus operandi for the CIA to make an example and to warn off people of like mind from continuing a similar path of resistance; this I learned from a military vet.

 

In his article on Rense.com, Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?, Yoichi Shimatsu presents the position that Aaron directly downloaded information from an MIT server, including names, of an elite pedophile ring, and that the threat of exposure of these abominable pedophilic elite led to the extremely harsh charges against him and his murder. The pedophile ring "clientele ... includes the highest echelon of the State Department, major corporations, intelligence agencies, the military brass, and the White House.”

 

Aangirfan Blogspot reviews Shimatsu’s article in Jewish Hero Aaron Swartz; Exposing Elite Child Abuse, and presents additional information on these despicable pedophile rings.

 

Both articles are well worth taking the time to read. As far as legislation being introduced post Aaron's death, it's my opinion that is only diversion with smoke and mirrors by the criminals and paid puppets in D.C.

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