On the 13th January (Sunday) gave the sad news of the death of Aaron Swartz. Suicide by hanging, have occurred in her own apartment in New York. For everyone there are many tributes and messages of condolence to the family, that are being posted on social networks and on various websites.
Note that Aron's family blamed the suicide of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and accordingly the President of MIT already announced that it will be held an internal investigation in order to assess whether there is any relation between the death of Swartz and MIT.
The group Anonymous, in tribute to Aaron Swartz, attacked the site of MIT and demanded an overhaul of the laws governing computer crime.
Born in 1986, Swartz was co-author of the first specification of the RSS when he was only 14 years and was co-founder of the site Reddit (news website based on social sharing). He was a defender of freedom of expression and free flow of information on the Internet and awaiting trial for being accused of stealing about 5 million documents in a web-based platform called JSTOR archive and also a scientific MIT.
In the message left by the Anonymous group, the MIT site, reads that "Having been the Government or not contributing to the suicide of Swartz, the complaint made to him was a" grotesque mistake "Aaron died of justice .. the fight for freedom of expression and access to scientific information by all "
"Whether or not the government Contributed to his suicide, the government's prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, the distorted and perverse shadow of the justice That Aaron died fighting for - freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from the publishing system That makes it inaccessible to most of Those Who paid for it - enabling the collective betterment of the world through the facilitation of sharing - an ideal That We Should all support ".
The message of the group Anonymous can be read in its entirety in Patebin here . Note that the family of Aaron Swartz and the group Anonymous accuse Justice to be "wicked."
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