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Re:The internet’s own boy: the story of Aaron Swartz [video] by patcon on Thursday May 07, 2015 @10:50AM (#9505433)
I might have sympathized with Atwood's comment before watching the doc, but the film goes into the misery Swartz felt even on the first day of working in the Conde Nast office. He literally barred himself in a bathroom stall and wept. For a unique character like Swartz, the disempowerment of the prison system must have literally seemed a living nightmare.
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Re:The internet’s own boy: the story of Aaron Swartz [video] by at-fates-hands on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:22AM (#9505702)
Surely he knew prison would be a likely outcome of his actions? If he was not prepared to do jail time (like hundreds of other hackers and activists had done without a whimper), then perhaps he should have recalculated what he was doing.

For someone so intelligent, it seems he didn't fully understand the implications of his own actions, which is puzzling on several different levels.

While his suicide was a tragedy, it was completely avoidable.

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Re:The internet’s own boy: the story of Aaron Swartz [video] by tptacek on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:20PM (#9509069)
Suicidal depression can be intractable, and we should be careful about assertions of how avoidable any given suicide is. This is a motherfucker of a group of diseases we're talking about.
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