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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by mrgordon on Saturday August 15, 2020 @09:12PM (#24173926)
You realize the author of the linked article resigned over Epstein and frequently fought to improve things? Why try to link him to some trash that he vehemently opposed?

And Swartz’s death was caused by JSTOR not the Media Lab FYI

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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by dredmorbius on Sunday August 16, 2020 @03:54AM (#24176064)
Early on, and to its great credit, JSTOR figured "appropriate" out: They declined to pursue their own action against Aaron, and they asked the government to drop its. MIT, to its great shame, was not as clear, and so the prosecutor had the excuse he needed to continue his war against the "criminal" who we who loved him knew as Aaron.

-- Lawrence Lessig, "Prosecutor as Bully"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aaron-swartz-suicide_b_246707...

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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by tzs on Sunday August 16, 2020 @12:23AM (#24175091)
> And Swartz’s death was caused by JSTOR

Huh? What in JSTOR's behavior [1] do you think caused Swartz's death?

[1] https://docs.jstor.org/summary.html

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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by mrgordon on Sunday August 16, 2020 @01:47AM (#24175532)
By their own account, “We also reiterated our desire that MIT identify the individual(s) responsible”

They pushed for aggressive chasing down of an individual for stealing some articles that were largely publicly funded as I recall. This escalated to the FBI and led to a laundry list of charges that scared him into suicide. Not great for some research we should have just had available for free after already paying to fund it once

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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by foldr on Sunday August 16, 2020 @11:56AM (#24178791)
JSTOR has to at least make a show of respecting the licensing agreements that they have with publishers. It can't be seen to wink at an attempt to make its entire archive available for free.

JSTOR actually does a ton of useful work scanning old journal articles. Someone has to pay for this.

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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by wombatpm on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:24PM (#24174718)
And MIT threw Adam to the wolves.
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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by mrgordon on Sunday August 16, 2020 @01:36AM (#24175484)
Correct but not the Media Lab specifically and that’s a big difference
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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by ponker on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:59AM (#24176314)
Who's Adam?
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