Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Greg Norcie]

I really respect Aaron's work, and don't mean to detract from it.

But perhaps we can use this to talk about the issue of depression in the
technology community? (Especially academia - we are, after all on  a
Stanford run email list)

I have several friends in academia who suffer from depression. I am
known  for being a good listening IRL, and I've offered to be there for
many of them.

You know what depressed ME?

All of them remain oblivious the others exist - because they all believe
that publicly acknowledging their mental illness will kill their chances
for tenure and/or prestigious industry research jobs, and have sworn me
to secrecy. These friends come from multiple universities/companies - it
is not a problem endemic to one place.

Depression kills more people than terrorism, DUI, heart disease, breast
cancer - more than so many popular causes.

Again - I do not in any way, shape, or form intend to detract from
Alex's contributions. He was a great inspiration to me, and I greatly
respect his contributions to us all.

But I think that by opening a conversation about mental illness, we can
help more people than debating about JSTOR, and do not want to see this
opportunity lost.

We could remove the stigma from talking about mental illness in academia
today, if we chose. And maybe we could save someone thinking of making
the choice Aaron made.

Personally, I dislike the term "suicide". I prefer the wording
"died of depression" - to emphasize that depression is as much as a
disease as any other.

In closing... I offer my condolences to Aaron's surviving family, and
hope we can use this moment to achieve some sort of silver lining to an
extremely dark cloud.

RIP Aaron.
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On 1/12/13 3:35 AM, Yosem Companys wrote:
> This is a tragic loss and a terrible blow to the liberationtech community.
> 
> Yosem
> 
> 
> 
> http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
> 
> Aaron Swartz commits suicide
> 
> Web Update
> 
> By Anne Cai
> NEWS EDITOR; UPDATED AT 2:15 A.M. 1/12/13
> 
> Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City
> yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment
> to The Tech. Swartz was 26.
> 
> “The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is,
> regrettably, true,” confirmed Swartz’ attorney, Elliot R. Peters of
> Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.
> 
> Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly
> mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with
> the intent to distribute them. He subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New
> York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit “global
> web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making
> everywhere.” Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded
> not guilty.
> 
> The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0
> specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular
> social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s
> Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded
> DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills
> SOPA/PIPA.”
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Re: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On Censorship

[Martin Johnson]

"All you are doing is pointing out obvious flaws in the Wired report."

Yes. Since you used it as a source it seems relevant to point out its flaws.

"I can just the same present the obvious counter-argument that regular
non-VPN users very rarely search for terms related to whatever
revolutionary movements are currently considered sexy in the West."

Examples of search terms blocked on Google by the GFW (sexy in the
west?): 中共 (The Chinese Communist Party), 习 (to "study", also the last name
of the current Party leader), 五毛 (50 cents), 吴 and 周 (common surnames), 太子
(crown prince), 广场 (square), 日记 (diary) and thousands more (
https://en.greatfire.org/search/google-searches). Any search containing any
of these terms makes the connection reset and Google Search to be unusable
for about a minute. This is clearly a bad user experience affecting a lot
of users, including those not searching for "revolutionary movements".

"It is certainly possible that Google pulling out the censored words
warning was due to something done by the Chinese in the days prior to that,
where that something resulted in user experience being worse (e.g.: users
being blocked despite using synonyms, or presented with unusable results
that will get them blocked anyway)."

Please provide any form of evidence suggesting this to be true. I have
provided a copy of Google Search when accessed from China, as of early
December, demonstrating that the function was working at that point.

"I don't see any reason to trust GreatFire's judgement on the matter,
because it took them a month to notice the change, which goes contrary to
claims about user experience getting worse."

Yes, it took us a month to report on it and we are surprised as well that
nobody else reported on it prior to that.

Martin Johnson
Founder
https://GreatFire.org - Monitoring Online Censorship In China.
https://FreeWeibo.com - Uncensored, Anonymous Sina Weibo Search.
https://Unblock.cn.com - We Can Unblock Your Website In China.


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Maxim Kammerer  wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Hal Roberts
>  wrote:
> > I'd like to back this up.  I haven't done any research on circumvention
> > usage for a couple of years, but it doesn't pass the sniff test to claim
> > that a majority of the 500 million Chinese Internet users are on VPNs.
> Such
> > widespread VPN usage would have large, obvious impacts on the basic
> > structure of the Internet.
>
> All you are doing is pointing out obvious flaws in the Wired report. I
> can just the same present the obvious counter-argument that regular
> non-VPN users very rarely search for terms related to whatever
> revolutionary movements are currently considered sexy in the West. I
> have only quoted Wired and TechCrunch as two sources that did a bit
> more than rewriting GreatFire's blog post. This says nothing about
> user experiences. It is certainly possible that Google pulling out the
> censored words warning was due to something done by the Chinese in the
> days prior to that, where that something resulted in user experience
> being worse (e.g.: users being blocked despite using synonyms, or
> presented with unusable results that will get them blocked anyway). I
> don't see any reason to trust GreatFire's judgement on the matter,
> because it took them a month to notice the change, which goes contrary
> to claims about user experience getting worse.
>
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Re: [liberationtech] Gmail SSL Certificate Churn?

[Sky (Jim Schuyler)]

Rapidly means several days to a week for google.com. We (Cyberspark.net) watch 
the Google.com SSL certs (not gmail) and it takes at least a few days as they 
roll new certs onto multiple IP addresses (round robin DNS). I have only 
monitored this for the last two years, but it's been the same both years. I 
have never understood why they don't or can't deploy the new certs more 
rapidly, and it does set off repeated alarms within our systems. But as long as 
they are valid and properly signed we just watch and smile.

DNS rotates the address for Google.com among a number of IP addresses, and they 
don't update all of those servers at the same time, so it appears to our 
monitors as "thrashing" back and forth between the old and the new certs.

I wonder if anyone in the group knows whether there's any good reason they 
should or shouldn't push new certs on all machines at the same time?

(Nick -- would like to see what you have online, but won't blast thru a 
certificate warning. Perhaps you have it somewhere else.)

-Sky


On Jan 12, 2013, at 2:57 PM, John Adams  wrote:

> Additionally, while you're complaining about other people's SSL certificates, 
> you should fix yours. :)
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, John Adams  wrote:
> Google has stated publically that they rapidly roll their SSL certificates. 
> Nothing to see here, no blog post to write, move along now...
> 
> -j
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Nick M. Daly  wrote:
> Hi folks, can you help me understand how to interpret this data?  It
> appears that Gmail's SSL certificate changed fairly frequently during
> the month of December.  That seems wrong to me.  What's this all mean?
> 
> https://www.betweennowhere.net/blog/2013/01/gmails-changing-ssl-certificates/
> 
> The weirdest part isn't how the 0E:66... certificate disappeared on
> November 20th (or December 5th), but how it came back into circulation
> on or around December 20th.
> 
> Thanks for any clarification you can offer on this situation,
> Nick
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Re: [liberationtech] Gmail SSL Certificate Churn?

[Nick M. Daly]

John Adams  writes:

> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, John Adams  wrote:
>
>> Google has stated publically that they rapidly roll their SSL
>> certificates. Nothing to see here, no blog post to write, move along
>> now...

Thanks for pointing that out, I must've missed those announcements.

> Additionally, while you're complaining about other people's SSL
> certificates, you should fix yours. :)

It's broken for a reason, I'm trying something weird.

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Re: [liberationtech] Gmail SSL Certificate Churn?

[John Adams]

Additionally, while you're complaining about other people's SSL
certificates, you should fix yours. :)

[image: Inline image 1]


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, John Adams  wrote:

> Google has stated publically that they rapidly roll their SSL
> certificates. Nothing to see here, no blog post to write, move along now...
>
> -j
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Nick M. Daly wrote:
>
>> Hi folks, can you help me understand how to interpret this data?  It
>> appears that Gmail's SSL certificate changed fairly frequently during
>> the month of December.  That seems wrong to me.  What's this all mean?
>>
>>
>> https://www.betweennowhere.net/blog/2013/01/gmails-changing-ssl-certificates/
>>
>> The weirdest part isn't how the 0E:66... certificate disappeared on
>> November 20th (or December 5th), but how it came back into circulation
>> on or around December 20th.
>>
>> Thanks for any clarification you can offer on this situation,
>> Nick
>>
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Re: [liberationtech] Gmail SSL Certificate Churn?

[John Adams]

Google has stated publically that they rapidly roll their SSL certificates.
Nothing to see here, no blog post to write, move along now...

-j


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Nick M. Daly  wrote:

> Hi folks, can you help me understand how to interpret this data?  It
> appears that Gmail's SSL certificate changed fairly frequently during
> the month of December.  That seems wrong to me.  What's this all mean?
>
>
> https://www.betweennowhere.net/blog/2013/01/gmails-changing-ssl-certificates/
>
> The weirdest part isn't how the 0E:66... certificate disappeared on
> November 20th (or December 5th), but how it came back into circulation
> on or around December 20th.
>
> Thanks for any clarification you can offer on this situation,
> Nick
>
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[liberationtech] Gmail SSL Certificate Churn?

[Nick M . Daly]

Hi folks, can you help me understand how to interpret this data?  It
appears that Gmail's SSL certificate changed fairly frequently during
the month of December.  That seems wrong to me.  What's this all mean?

https://www.betweennowhere.net/blog/2013/01/gmails-changing-ssl-certificates/

The weirdest part isn't how the 0E:66... certificate disappeared on
November 20th (or December 5th), but how it came back into circulation
on or around December 20th.

Thanks for any clarification you can offer on this situation,
Nick
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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Gabe Gossett]

While I sympathize with the open access spirit of this thread, and have no 
intention to detract from the eulogizing of Aaron Swartz, I think that in all 
fairness a few things should be pointed out.

JSTOR is not a journal publisher. This is an important distinction since it 
means that JSTOR's terms are, at least in part, influenced by the journal 
publishers. It also means that it will not always be clear whether or not an 
article you publish will end up in JSTOR unless you make sure that you are 
publishing in a fully open access (OA) journal (which is the route I would 
recommend for anyone concerned with information equity). A directory of OA 
journals can be found here http://www.doaj.org

Also, as a librarian, I have found JSTOR to be one of the least problematic of 
the academic content providers. This is probably due to the fact that they are 
non-profit, distribute little in the way of current content (where the profit 
margins are higher), allow for perpetual access to back runs that are bought, 
and was established as a way to expand access to journal content in academia. 
If there was an effective business model to allow for total open access I would 
not be surprised if JSTOR would be one of the content aggregators most open to 
such a model.

The real bad guys in the academic publishing world are for-profits like 
Elsevier, which was the target of a recent boycott: 
http://thecostofknowledge.com

Regards,
Gabe


On Jan 12, 2013, at 10:53 AM, "Julian Oliver" 
mailto:jul...@julianoliver.com>> wrote:

..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Shava Nerad wrote:
Irony:
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/1/9/3857628/jstor-opens-up-limited-free-access-to-its-digital-library

This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming
domain it's comparable to source code that is technically open for reading yet
disallows modification or redistribution. Aaron would've been just as pissed
about this.

On their site they say 'A New Chapter Begins'. There's the irony.

We should all stop supporting knowledge mafia like JSTOR by discouraging our
peers to publish there. It's bad enough that publicly funded universities push
their knowledge output to a private business interest.

A great way to channel any despair from Aaron's death is to encourage peers to
publish openly.

Cheers,

Julian

On Jan 12, 2013 3:36 AM, "Yosem Companys" 
mailto:compa...@stanford.edu>> wrote:

This is a tragic loss and a terrible blow to the liberationtech community.

Yosem



http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html

Aaron Swartz commits suicide

Web Update

By Anne Cai
NEWS EDITOR; UPDATED AT 2:15 A.M. 1/12/13

Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City
yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment
to The Tech. Swartz was 26.

“The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is,
regrettably, true,” confirmed Swartz’ attorney, Elliot R. Peters of
Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.

Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly
mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with
the intent to distribute them. He subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New
York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit “global
web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making
everywhere.” Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded
not guilty.

The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0
specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular
social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s
Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded
DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet 
censorship bills
SOPA/PIPA.”
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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:01:37PM -0800, James S. Tyre wrote:
> What some are saying about Aaron.

Tim Berners-Lee (quoted by Paola Di Maio):

> From: Tim Berners-Lee [mailto:ti...@w3.org]
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 7:06 PM
> To: SW-forum Web; TAG List
> Subject: Aaron is dead.
>
> Aaron is dead.
>
> Wanderers in this crazy world,
> we have lost a mentor, a wise elder.
>
> Hackers for right, we are one down,
> we have lost one of our own.
>
> Nurtures, careers, listeners, feeders,
> parents all,
> we have lost a child.
>
> Let us all weep.
>
>
> timbl
>

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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote:

> We should all stop supporting knowledge mafia like JSTOR by discouraging our
> peers to publish there. It's bad enough that publicly funded universities push
> their knowledge output to a private business interest. 
> 
> A great way to channel any despair from Aaron's death is to encourage peers to
> publish openly.

As a means of civil disobedience against unacceptable practices, consider
submitting liberated content to projects like Library Genesis.
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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[James S. Tyre]

What some are saying about Aaron.

Cory Doctorow: http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html

Brewster Kahle:
http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz-hero-of-the-open-world-rip/

Larry Lessig: http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/farewell-aaron-swartz

James Grimmelmann: 
http://laboratorium.net/archive/2013/01/12/aaron_swartz_was_26

Carl Malamud: https://public.resource.org/aaron/ 

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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Julian Oliver]

..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 02:06:55PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Julian Oliver  
> wrote:
> > This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming
> > domain it's comparable to source code that is technically open for reading 
> > yet
> > disallows modification or redistribution.
> 
> This is absolutely the case, but at the same time— claims, never heard
> by big names negotiating with jstor before, that they were planning it
> all along notwithstanding— it does show sensitivity to negative
> attention.  That some change can be made, even if it's just
> pretextual, is important.  Likewise, while getting the right TOS does
> matter, access itself is the most important thing.  Lets see them
> prosecute someone for violating their TOS when they execute their
> rights over public domain works— that would be the kind of
> unambiguously frivolous litigation which would create the kind of
> outrage needed to topple the whole thing.
> 

You are right that we need to celebrate the small changes. And indeed it's
better that these articles are being read. Nonetheless I do find it frustrating
to see so many towing the line that JSTOR is "opening up their articles to the
public" when in fact (from the press release) "Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR
account and read up to three articles for free every two weeks."


http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/01/academic-libraries/many-jstor-journal-archives-now-free-to-public/

That's as 'free' as a 1h parking spot. JSTOR's strategy is in the interest of
maintaining control, not relinquishing it (naturally). By continuing to use
JSTOR - even signing up to download tantalising 'free' papers - is to show
support for an ongoing effort to privatise critical thought. 

IMHO,

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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Meredith L. Patterson
 wrote:
> The JSTOR announcement is dated January 9th. If they were showing
> sensitivity to negative attention, it was only in response to matters having
> reached the point they did *before* Aaron's suicide.

Ah, this is what I get for not reading the link. I thought this was
referring to Jstor's prior move to open up access to public domain
works (which was also behind an egregious look but don't touch or copy
TOS), which I have evidence and believe was negative attention
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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Meredith L. Patterson]

On Jan 12, 2013 8:07 PM, "Gregory Maxwell"  wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Julian Oliver 
wrote:
> > This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the
programming
> > domain it's comparable to source code that is technically open for
reading yet
> > disallows modification or redistribution.
>
> This is absolutely the case, but at the same time— claims, never heard
> by big names negotiating with jstor before, that they were planning it
> all along notwithstanding— it does show sensitivity to negative
> attention.

The JSTOR announcement is dated January 9th. If they were showing
sensitivity to negative attention, it was only in response to matters
having reached the point they did *before* Aaron's suicide.

Your move, JSTOR.

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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Julian Oliver  wrote:
> This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming
> domain it's comparable to source code that is technically open for reading yet
> disallows modification or redistribution.

This is absolutely the case, but at the same time— claims, never heard
by big names negotiating with jstor before, that they were planning it
all along notwithstanding— it does show sensitivity to negative
attention.  That some change can be made, even if it's just
pretextual, is important.  Likewise, while getting the right TOS does
matter, access itself is the most important thing.  Lets see them
prosecute someone for violating their TOS when they execute their
rights over public domain works— that would be the kind of
unambiguously frivolous litigation which would create the kind of
outrage needed to topple the whole thing.

> A great way to channel any despair from Aaron's death is to encourage peers to
> publish openly.

Agreed.
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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Julian Oliver]

..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Shava Nerad wrote:
> Irony:
> http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/1/9/3857628/jstor-opens-up-limited-free-access-to-its-digital-library

This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming
domain it's comparable to source code that is technically open for reading yet
disallows modification or redistribution. Aaron would've been just as pissed
about this.

On their site they say 'A New Chapter Begins'. There's the irony.

We should all stop supporting knowledge mafia like JSTOR by discouraging our
peers to publish there. It's bad enough that publicly funded universities push
their knowledge output to a private business interest. 

A great way to channel any despair from Aaron's death is to encourage peers to
publish openly.

Cheers,

Julian

> On Jan 12, 2013 3:36 AM, "Yosem Companys"  wrote:
> 
> > This is a tragic loss and a terrible blow to the liberationtech community.
> >
> > Yosem
> >
> >
> >
> > http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
> >
> > Aaron Swartz commits suicide
> >
> > Web Update
> >
> > By Anne Cai
> > NEWS EDITOR; UPDATED AT 2:15 A.M. 1/12/13
> >
> > Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City
> > yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment
> > to The Tech. Swartz was 26.
> >
> > “The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is,
> > regrettably, true,” confirmed Swartz’ attorney, Elliot R. Peters of
> > Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.
> >
> > Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly
> > mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with
> > the intent to distribute them. He subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New
> > York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit “global
> > web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making
> > everywhere.” Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded
> > not guilty.
> >
> > The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0
> > specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular
> > social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s
> > Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded
> > DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills
> > SOPA/PIPA.”
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Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Shava Nerad]

Irony:
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/1/9/3857628/jstor-opens-up-limited-free-access-to-its-digital-library

I can't even think about this, what a loss to our community, what a light
guttered out so young!

Shava
On Jan 12, 2013 3:36 AM, "Yosem Companys"  wrote:

> This is a tragic loss and a terrible blow to the liberationtech community.
>
> Yosem
>
>
>
> http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
>
> Aaron Swartz commits suicide
>
> Web Update
>
> By Anne Cai
> NEWS EDITOR; UPDATED AT 2:15 A.M. 1/12/13
>
> Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City
> yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment
> to The Tech. Swartz was 26.
>
> “The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is,
> regrettably, true,” confirmed Swartz’ attorney, Elliot R. Peters of
> Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.
>
> Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly
> mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with
> the intent to distribute them. He subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New
> York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit “global
> web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making
> everywhere.” Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded
> not guilty.
>
> The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0
> specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular
> social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s
> Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded
> DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills
> SOPA/PIPA.”
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[liberationtech] RIP Aaron Swarts (1986-2013) [Corrected]

[Walid AL-SAQAF]

Correction in the title of my previous message, it should be (1986-2013).

Sincerely,

Walid

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alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
https://alkasir.com 


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Walid AL-SAQAF  <
ad...@alkasir.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> You may have heard that Internet activist Aaron Swartz was announced dead
> after he apparently committed suicide 
> yesterday.
>
>
> Regardless how he died, it's just important to pay tribute to the
> significant work he had done for Internet freedom and liberty online and it
> is with great sadness that we see one of the most remarkable individuals
> pass away in such a young age.
>
> May his soul rest in peace.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Walid
>
> -
>
> Walid Al-Saqaf
> Founder & Administrator
> alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
> https://alkasir.com 
>
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[liberationtech] RIP Aaron Swarts (1986-2012)

[Walid AL-SAQAF]

Hello all,

You may have heard that Internet activist Aaron Swartz was announced dead
after he apparently committed suicide
yesterday.


Regardless how he died, it's just important to pay tribute to the
significant work he had done for Internet freedom and liberty online and it
is with great sadness that we see one of the most remarkable individuals
pass away in such a young age.

May his soul rest in peace.

Sincerely,

Walid

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Re: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On Censorship

[Maxim Kammerer]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Hal Roberts
 wrote:
> I'd like to back this up.  I haven't done any research on circumvention
> usage for a couple of years, but it doesn't pass the sniff test to claim
> that a majority of the 500 million Chinese Internet users are on VPNs. Such
> widespread VPN usage would have large, obvious impacts on the basic
> structure of the Internet.

All you are doing is pointing out obvious flaws in the Wired report. I
can just the same present the obvious counter-argument that regular
non-VPN users very rarely search for terms related to whatever
revolutionary movements are currently considered sexy in the West. I
have only quoted Wired and TechCrunch as two sources that did a bit
more than rewriting GreatFire's blog post. This says nothing about
user experiences. It is certainly possible that Google pulling out the
censored words warning was due to something done by the Chinese in the
days prior to that, where that something resulted in user experience
being worse (e.g.: users being blocked despite using synonyms, or
presented with unusable results that will get them blocked anyway). I
don't see any reason to trust GreatFire's judgement on the matter,
because it took them a month to notice the change, which goes contrary
to claims about user experience getting worse.

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[liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

[Yosem Companys]

This is a tragic loss and a terrible blow to the liberationtech community.

Yosem



http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html

Aaron Swartz commits suicide

Web Update

By Anne Cai
NEWS EDITOR; UPDATED AT 2:15 A.M. 1/12/13

Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City
yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment
to The Tech. Swartz was 26.

“The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is,
regrettably, true,” confirmed Swartz’ attorney, Elliot R. Peters of
Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.

Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly
mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with
the intent to distribute them. He subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New
York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit “global
web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making
everywhere.” Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded
not guilty.

The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0
specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular
social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s
Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded
DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills
SOPA/PIPA.”
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