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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by ryanlol on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:52AM (#18687550)
Did Swartz tell you that this was why he killed himself?

Or are you just spitting on his grave by suggesting that he was too dumb to understand what sentence he was realistically facing? Swartz had good legal representation, he definitely knew he wasn't in serious trouble.

Clearly this guy had been depressed for a long time, he had already posted a suicide note on his blog long before the whole JSTOR thing.

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by 1000units on Saturday December 15, 2018 @04:05PM (#18690338)
I think he killed himself immediately after a traumatizing course of events, and people are jumping through hoops to make sure nobody gets blamed. People are really uncomfortable with the idea of being responsible for the world around them to any extent, and just one of the coping mechanisms for this is blunt literalism, "he wasn't threatened with life in prison, only 14 felony convictions and maybe a few years at most!"
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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by ryanlol on Saturday December 15, 2018 @05:03PM (#18690614)
He killed himself, obviously all of the blame is on him.

If he had been locked in a cell when he did it, then it might be realistic to point fingers at others.

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by 1000units on Saturday December 15, 2018 @05:37PM (#18690751)
It's our temptation to think that, being complicit with the corrupt system that destroyed him.
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