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Re:Why Am I So Upset About Aaron Swartz's Suicide? by danso on Monday January 14, 2013 @05:52AM (#5054139)
I guess the more profound tragedy, as I feel it, is that I always believed Aaron would be one of the best people to lead the fight against these problems (or at least, what causes them), and that the JSTOR trial was just a new, if difficult front.
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Re:Why Am I So Upset About Aaron Swartz's Suicide? by SoftwareMaven on Monday January 14, 2013 @06:47PM (#5057469)
I think many people in power got scared by the power he wielded in the SOPA/PIPA debate, which put a lot of pressure on getting him out of the scene. The AG was all too happy to acquiesce.
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