Aaron Swartz - hero of the internet - dies at 26.

[witchy1]

Aaron Swartz, champion of the open world, allegedly committed suicide yesterday.

If you have never heard of him, please take the opportunity to get to know him and what he has done for all of us.

This is Aarons personal speak about how he rallied support to stop the censorship of the internet - and won. It also describes congress and how it works when changing legislation, the effects of the SOPA bill on reps, copyright, and many other interesting things.

He was a true shining light for the internet generation, a fighter for the freedoms of mankind, selfless, courageous intelligent articulate and knowledgable.

He understood how things really work and worked with their system to make change for all of us.

I have listed below some websites relating to Aaron. There are many, many tributes to this truely wonderful person.
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html
http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully

May your wings be free and your soul forevermore in peace.

Fgh2dFngFsg

Brief overview of Aarons work


A co-founder of DemandProgress.org (http://demandprogress.org/), a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills SOPA/PIPA”
Architect and first coder of the OpenLibrary.org (http://openlibrary.org/) a site to open the world of books to the Internet generation.
Developed the site the theinfo.org (http://theinfo.org/)
Co-wrote the RSS 1.0 spec
Contributing Editor to The Baffler (http://thebaffler.com/) and on the Council of Advisors to The Rules.
He helped put public domain books on the site that had been locked up by libraries. Public access to the Public Domain, while seems obvious is not the position of many institutions, and this caused friction for Aaron.
Cofounded the online news site Reddit, where he released as free software the web framework he developed, web.py (http://webpy.org/).
As a volunteer, he helped make the RECAP system (https://www.recapthelaw.org/) to offer free public access (http://archive.org/details/usfederalcourts) to public domain government court documents.
He took the bold step of seeding this system by going to a public library to download the public domain and then uploaded the documents to the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/usfederalcourts)– this got him in trouble with the FBI. Now many millions of public domain documents have been used by over six million people for free, including researchers that could never have afforded the high fees to gain access.
Aaron was arrested for allegedly illegally downloading (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/) millions of academic journal articles “with the intent to distribute them”, from the JSTOR (http://about.jstor.org/sites/default/files/misc/jstor-factsheet-20120213.pdf) digital archive. Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded not guilty. (This is the same as taking too many books out of the library)

Aaron was steadfast in his dedication to building a better and open world. He will be missed by many. I am sure all our thoughts go out to his parents and his friends who knew him

http://www.aaronsw.com/
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html
http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/taryn-simon-cultural-differences

http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz-hero-of-the-open-world-rip/
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html?comments#comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html?_r=0
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Internet_Activist_and_Reddit_co-founder_found_dead%2C_reportedly_committed_suicide/23569/0/38/38/Y/M.html

[TigaHawk]

For some reason i do not think it waws suicide.....

[Marikins]

I do not believe it was suicide either. A great loss in any case.

[Hip Hipnotist]

For some reason i do not think it waws suicide.....

I can think of many reasons but that would derail this post.

[Operator]

I can think of many reasons but that would derail this post.

Would it?
In those kind of cases I get curious about the motivation for the alleged suicide. His death is part of the
thread title. So I think that more info on motivation could be a valuable addition.

I found this in the New York times:


An uncle, Michael Wolf, said that Mr. Swartz, 26, had apparently hanged himself, and that a friend of Mr. Swartz’s had discovered the body.


He later became an Internet folk hero, pushing to make many Web files free and open to the public. But in July 2011, he was indicted on federal charges of gaining illegal access to JSTOR, a subscription-only service for distributing scientific and literary journals, and downloading 4.8 million articles and documents, nearly the entire library.

Charges in the case, including wire fraud and computer fraud, were pending at the time of Mr. Swartz’s death, carrying potential penalties of up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines.

Complete article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html?_r=0

A letter with motivation was not mentioned however. I read some movie analysis on his weblog. He was very extensive.
Someone like him wouldn't leave this world without any comment me thinks.

[Sidney]

My first gut instinct was homicide, not suicide.

[Reinhard]

Before we derail into speculations, if he really committed suicide or was suicided, let's stay focussed.
His family and partner released the following statement (Quote from 'Blacklisted News'):

Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community’s most cherished principles.

Today, we grieve for the extraordinary and irreplaceable man that we have lost.

The family said that Aaron's funeral will be held in Highland Park, IL, on Tuesday January 15.

This courageous and brilliant young man followed his own principle, "Big stories need human stakes". What a legacy!
My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. He'll be back.

He fought for the internet-freedom that all of us enjoy so much, and it seems that this fight isn't over, yet. It's up to us now!
Let's keep the internet out of control!!!



Aaron Swartz, champion of the open world, committed suicide yesterday.

If you have never heard of him, please take the opportunity to get to know him and what he has done for all of us.

This is Aarons personal speak about how he rallied support to stop the censorship of the internet - and won. It also describes congress and how it works when changing legislation, the effects of the SOPA bill on reps, copyright, and many other interesting things.

He was a true shining light for the internet generation, a fighter for the freedoms of mankind, selfless, courageous intelligent articulate and knowledgable.

He understood how things really work and worked with their system to make change for all of us.

I have listed below some websites relating to Aaron. There are many, many tributes to this truely wonderful person.
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html
http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully

May your wings be free and your soul forevermore in peace.

Fgh2dFngFsg

Brief overview of Aarons work


A co-founder of DemandProgress.org (http://demandprogress.org/), a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills SOPA/PIPA”
Architect and first coder of the OpenLibrary.org (http://openlibrary.org/) a site to open the world of books to the Internet generation.
Developed the site the theinfo.org (http://theinfo.org/)
Co-wrote the RSS 1.0 spec
Contributing Editor to The Baffler (http://thebaffler.com/) and on the Council of Advisors to The Rules.
He helped put public domain books on the site that had been locked up by libraries. Public access to the Public Domain, while seems obvious is not the position of many institutions, and this caused friction for Aaron.
Cofounded the online news site Reddit, where he released as free software the web framework he developed, web.py (http://webpy.org/).
As a volunteer, he helped make the RECAP system (https://www.recapthelaw.org/) to offer free public access (http://archive.org/details/usfederalcourts) to public domain government court documents.
He took the bold step of seeding this system by going to a public library to download the public domain and then uploaded the documents to the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/usfederalcourts)– this got him in trouble with the FBI. Now many millions of public domain documents have been used by over six million people for free, including researchers that could never have afforded the high fees to gain access.
Aaron was arrested for allegedly illegally downloading (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/) millions of academic journal articles “with the intent to distribute them”, from the JSTOR (http://about.jstor.org/sites/default/files/misc/jstor-factsheet-20120213.pdf) digital archive. Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded not guilty. (This is the same as taking too many books out of the library)

Aaron was steadfast in his dedication to building a better and open world. He will be missed by many. I am sure all our thoughts go out to his parents and his friends who knew him

http://www.aaronsw.com/
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html
http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/taryn-simon-cultural-differences

http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz-hero-of-the-open-world-rip/
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html?comments#comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html?_r=0
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Internet_Activist_and_Reddit_co-founder_found_dead%2C_reportedly_committed_suicide/23569/0/38/38/Y/M.html

[kaon]

Prominent American blogger and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who spoke against US President Barack Obama’s “kill list” and cyber attacks against Iran, has been found dead in New York.


Police found the body of the 26-year-old in his apartment in New York City borough of Brooklyn on Friday, said a spokeswoman for the city’s chief medical examiner.

Brooklyn’s chief medical examiner ruled the death a suicide by hanging, but no further detail is available about the mysterious death.

Last year, Swartz openly criticized the US and the Israeli regime for launching joint cyber attacks against Iran.

The blogger was also vocal in criticizing Obama’s so-called kill list and other policies.

Obama has been reportedly approving the names put on the “kill lists” used in the targeted killing operations carried out by US assassination drones.

Every week or so, more than 100 members of the US national security team gather via secure video teleconference run by the Pentagon and go over the biographies of suspects in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, and “nominate” those who should be targeted in the attacks.


Obama is then provided with the identities of those put on the “kill list” and signs off on every strike in Yemen and Somalia as well as the risky strikes in Pakistan.

Swartz was also widely credited for co-authoring the specifications for the Web feed format RSS 1.0 (Rich Site Summary) which he worked on at age 14.

RSS is designed to deliver content from sites that change constantly, such as news pages, to users.

Swartz was critical of monopoly of information by corporate cartels and believed that information should be shared and available for the benefit of society.

“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves,” he wrote in an online “manifesto” in 2008.

Based on that belief, the computer prodigy founded the nonprofit group DemandProgress.

The group launched a successful campaign to block a 2011 bill that the US House of Representatives called the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Had it been approved, the bill would have allowed court orders to restrain access to some websites considered to be involved in illegal sharing of intellectual property.

DemandProgress argued that the thwarted Stop Online Piracy Act would have broadly authorized the US government to censor and restrict legitimate Web communication.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/13/283254/us-kill-list-critic-found-dead-in-ny/

Suicide or murder? Who knows. Either way a young mind with fortitude has expired at an early age, and is a loss to humanity.

[Flash]

I am coming to think that Bill Ryan is right: if you are going against the power, make sure you have good psychic telling you on time about psychic and physical attacks.

I am so sorry for this poor young genius, he was still too young to protect himself.

[Prodigal Son]

I wonder how many gubmint goons it took to subdue him

[Bill Ryan]

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From http://naturalnews.com/038650_Aaron_Swartz_suicide_assassination.html (http://naturalnews.com/038650_Aaron_Swartz_suicide_assassination.html:)

Visionary internet activist Aaron Swartz found dead; was this brilliant internet revolutionary 'taken out?'


(NaturalNews) Adding to the list of mysterious deaths that have happened over the last few days, internet visionary and brilliant internet activist Aaron Swartz was found dead yesterday. Swartz, only 26 years old, was the co-founder of Reddit.com, the co-creator of RSS technology, and the key activist who achieved a stunning defeat of the freedom-crushing SOPA / PIPA bills in the U.S. Congress.

Swartz was found dead yesterday, and the official story is that he committed suicide. But Swartz himself would have wanted us to question the official story and dig deeper.

After all, his own website, Demand Progress (http://blog.demandprogress.org/campaigns), questions the "PROTECT-IP" act, the insanity of George Bush's Patriot Act, the censorship of free speech by Facebook, the financial scams of Goldman Sachs, the internet kill switch and much more.

He even questioned the TSA's naked body scanners, just like I have here at Natural News.

In fact, when I look at Aaron Swartz, I see him as the next generation of American activists who we all desperately need: energized, intelligent, freedom-loving critical thinkers who spread truth and beat back tyranny and oppression at every opportunity. It's quite clear that had Swartz not been assassinated (er, I mean "suicided"), he would have gone on to be a game changer for freedom in our world.

Swartz was targeted by the system

Click here to watch this important video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzNXDdjtXQI) in which Swartz describes the decentralization of information on a free internet. Swartz fully understood the power of setting information free, and this is exactly the opposite of what the corporate-government-industrial-complex wants, which is the monopolization and centralization of power.

Click here to watch another important video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh2dFngFsg) in which Swartz describes how he and his friends defeated SOPA. In this video, he openly describes the government's proposed copyright legislation as a "tyranny."

Like all truth-tellers, Swartz was branded an enemy by the system. For the act of downloading thousands of academic articles from MIT (yes, academic papers), he was hounded by the FBI, arrested and charged with crimes that could have earned him up to 50 years in prison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz).

From the charges that were leveled against him for the relatively mild offense of downloading academic papers, it's very clear that somebody powerful was out to destroy him (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120917/17393320412/us-government-ups-felony-count-jstoraaron-swartz-case-four-to-thirteen.shtml).

Apparently they did just that.

Who benefits from the death of Aaron Swartz?

Who benefits? Hollywood and all its tyrannical copyright-pushing maniacs who want to criminalize anyone who downloads a movie off the internet.

The MPAA, in other words. That's the Motion Picture Association of America. Former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd is the key lobbyist representing the MPAA. He's now the chairperson and CEO of the MPAA, which has a long history of operating much like a mafia organization in its use of threats and mafia-style intimidation tactics (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57363376-71/did-mpaa-chairman-just-go-mafia-on-politicians/).

In fact, if the MPAA joined with the RIAA (recording industry association), it would create the MAFIAA, jokes one website (http://mafiaa.org/). See also www.MafiaaFire.com (http://www.mafiaafire.com/)

Would this mafia pay good money to have Aaron Swartz killed? (Are you kidding me? Do I even have to answer this question?)

Mysterious deaths of people who question government now becoming more frequent

The official explanation is that Swartz "hanged himself" with a rope in his own apartment. I'm certain that sooner or later additional information will come out about how he also knocked out his own teeth and beat himself badly before hanging himself, because that's the way these "suicides" of activists usually turn out.

Swartz's death is just one of many mysterious deaths that have recently taken place. Just a few days ago, a celebrated rifle manufacturer named John Noveske was killed in a mysterious car crash (http://www.naturalnews.com/038616_John_Noveske_mysterious_death_car_crash.html) -- not long after posting details of all the school shooters who were taking psychiatric drugs.

Another prominent internet technology pioneer committed "suicide" just over a year ago. Ilya Zhitomirskiy co-created Diaspora, the so-called 'Facebook-killer' technology (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061265/Facebook-rival-Diasporas-founder-Ilya-Zhitomirskiy-dies-22.html) that created a free, decentralized technology system that posed a severe threat to the data-mining monopoly of Facebook.

It has also been reported and confirmed that radio host Alex Jones was stalked by gun-toting goons (http://www.infowars.com/dhs-source-confirms-alex-was-being-stalked/) while in New York to appear on CNN. They tried to force him into some sort of altercation, but he escaped by hailing a cab and fleeing the area.

The next day, CNN guests announced live on the air that Piers Morgan should shoot Alex Jones with an AR-15 (http://www.infowars.com/veiled-threat-piers-morgan-guest-says-shoot-alex-jones/), and they even threatened Alex's children with a thinly-veiled comment about "I hope his children don't die."

Furthermore, another person I know who is a powerful activist for truth and freedom was very nearly killed yesterday in what looks like a planned automobile accident. He doesn't yet wish to release his name or any further details, but from what he described to me, he was just "inches" away from being turned into roadkill.

As these mysterious deaths start to add up, intelligent people are asking questions: Is this part of a deliberate assassination (http://www.naturalnews.com/assassination.html) campaign to take out top activists who question the government?

It's not an unreasonable question given our current political climate and the existence of Obama's secret kill list. Even Ron Paul has openly asked the question of who is on Obama's kill list (http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-who-else-is-on-obamas-secret-kill-list/).

I am NOT suicidal, depressed or on any drugs or medications

For the record, no one has attempted to kill me in at least the last 18 months. I am not aware of any threats against me, and I haven't noticed anyone following me or stalking me.

But just for the record, in case something happens to me, I am NOT suicidal or depressed or unhappy with life. I'm thrilled to be alive, thrilled to keep moving humanity forward, and thrilled to be part of what can only be called a mass awakening of spiritual freedom in our world.

I'm not taking any medications whatsoever (and haven't for decades), I do not drink alcohol, I do not use ANY recreational drugs whatsoever, I don't visit prostitutes and I'm not in any way a violent person. In fact, I can't even stand the thought of shooting animals (which is why I don't hunt). I actually avoid stepping on ants!

I don't drive at fast speeds on the highway, I don't engage in dangerous hobbies like skydiving, and I'm actually very safety-minded about everything I do.

While I take precautions to protect myself from bad people, I'm obviously not going to detail those on the internet. All I can say is that if someone comes to kill me, they'd better be ready to take some casualties in the process.

I very much doubt people like Aaron Swartz (http://www.naturalnews.com/Aaron_Swartz.html) knew much about self defense. He probably didn't even own a gun. But this is a lesson all activists need to take to heart right now: Get armed. Go get trained in basic self defense. Start moving through your environments (cities, streets, parking lots, apartment buildings, etc.) with more of a "tactical" mindset.

Be aware of your surroundings. Stop using credit cards as they instantly reveal your physical location. Turn off your cell phones and remove their batteries whenever possible.

If you don't learn to live a lot like a fugitive, you too might soon be "suicided" as part of what appears to be a national purge of the very best humanity has to offer.

[SilentFeathers]

The links to Mikes article is broke in your post Bill,

...and the "in your face" purging has begun.

[Bill Ryan]

The links to Mikes article is broke in your post Bill,

Fixed -- thanks. :)


...and the "in your face" purging has begun.

It may have. Read here:

http://naturalnews.com/038616_John_Noveske_mysterious_death_car_crash.html
(extract)

Mysterious death during gun control debate raises questions

John Noveske wasn't the first prominent gun rights supporter to be killed in the last few days. Keith Ratliff, the creator of a super-popular YouTube channel featuring videos of exotic weapons, was also recently found dead.

The Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259190/Keith-Ratliff-Popular-online-guns-explosives-expert-shot-death-rural-Georgia-road.html) reports that Ratliff was "discovered on a rural road in Carnesville, Georgia. Ratliff had a single gunshot wound the head and police are treating his death as a homicide."

Someone murdered Ratliff, in other words, and it had to be someone with the ability to get close enough to Ratliff to take him out without warning.

Beyond these two shootings, the widely-discredited CNN journalist Piers Morgan, wanted for questioning in Britain's Daily Mirror phone hacking scandal (http://www.naturalnews.com/038611_Piers_Morgan_criminal_hacking_journalism.html), invited guests onto his show who threatened Alex Jones' children and laughed about the idea of Piers Morgan shooting Alex Jones with an AR-15.

That astonishing video interview is available at:
http://www.infowars.com/veiled-threat-piers-morgan-guest-says-shoot-alex-jones (http://www.infowars.com/veiled-threat-piers-morgan-guest-says-shoot-alex-jones/)

Steve Quayle, creator of SteveQuayle.com (http://www.stevequayle.com/), says "the red list is on!" This refers to the so-called "red list" -- a secret kill list of Americans authorized by Obama and designed to be invoked immediately before an attempted radical leftist takeover of the nation. In support of this theory, Obama himself actually signed into law the NDAA (http://www.naturalnews.com/034537_NDAA_Bill_of_Rights_Obama.html) which authorizes secret assassinations of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.

Instead of the red list being "conspiracy theory," it appears to be a key component of Obama's domestic policy.[/URL]



Beyond coincidence: Pieces of the puzzle rapidly coming together

Sure, a car crash involving John Noveske could be a coincidence. It could also be a coincidence that no video footage has been released from Sandy Hook showing Adam Lanza carrying any rifle whatsoever.

It might also be a coincidence that Dianne Feinstein just happened to have her detailed [URL="http://www.naturalnews.com/038483_senator_feinstein_gun_control_registration.html"]gun confiscation bill (http://www.naturalnews.com/038616_John_Noveske_mysterious_death_car_crash.html#ixzz2Hs7oKNw4) ready to release immediately following the Sandy Hook shooting.

It might also be a total coincidence that according to Google.com, the United Way Sandy Hook donation support page (https://newtown.uwwesternct.org/) was created on December 11, 2012 -- a full three days before the shooting took place.

It could also be a total coincidence that NBC News reported Adam Lanza's AR-15 rifle was left in his car (http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=2E10716E6FD870ADECD5461A6778F3AB) and was never used in the shooting at all.

I suppose it could be a coincidence that Bank of America slammed home an economic embargo (http://www.ammoland.com/2013/01/american-spirit-arms-the-most-recent-victim-of-bank-of-america-anti-gun-discrimination) against an online gun parts retailer in the days following the Sandy Hook shooting.

And it could be coincidence that Facebook suspended or shut down the accounts of hundreds of prominent people (http://www.naturalnews.com/038484_Gandhi_quote_Facebook_censorship.html) who advocated the Second Amendment, including our account here at Natural News (http://www.naturalnews.com/).

And finally, it could be a total coincidence that police radio recordings (http://www.naturalnews.com/038509_Sandy_Hook_multiple_shooters_police_audio.html) seem to indicate there were multiple shooters involved in Sandy Hook.

But what are the odds of ALL of these coincidences existing simultaneously? Those odds are virtually zero.

Something's fishy with all this. It's becoming increasingly apparent that an order has come down from the very top to destroy, silence, threaten or execute true American patriots. Steve Quayle has long predicted this would be the very first step before foreign troops are unleashed on American soil to take over the country and deliver it, just as Obama has always planned, into the hands of the globalist crime syndicate.

It all sounds outrageous, I admit, and I'm not even sure what to believe myself. But it's becoming more difficult by the day to deny actual events happening right before our eyes. Believe what you will, but don't be surprised if people like Steve Quayle and Alex Jones were right all along. If we see any more mysterious deaths of prominent gun advocates, it going to raise huge red flags across the patriot community.

[Bill Ryan]

the "in your face" purging has begun.

If this is real -- and I think it may be -- then the intention will be twofold:



To eliminate key opponents (as per the 'red list' plan).
To send a clear, unmistakable coded warning to all activists.


If the message has not yet been fully understood (i.e. Mike Adams being 'reasonable' and stating that he's not sure yet what to believe) -- then they will repeat it until it's sunk home.

Recommendation: watch extremely carefully everything that happens in the next couple of weeks.

[Camilo]

Aaron Swartz, a true pioneer. Rest in Peace

[Freed Fox]

R.I.P. Mr. Swartz. Whatever the cause, it is a tragic loss.

I would certainly agree with your assessment of the underlying intent, Bill, if that is indeed the case. Although such a scenario is truly despicable (and we lose valuable individuals like Aaron), I believe it will ultimately be TPTB shooting themselves in the foot. Particularly if this is the beginning of the so-called 'in your face' phase. Although they do stand to weed out visible opposition, I think the second part of their intention is the one they are relying upon more; the coded message of fear.

They would expect us all to stand down...run and hide. I'd like to believe that we will do just the opposite.

[T Smith]

These assignations will eventually backfire. At present, it would seem the targets include little-known, but potentially very influential activists, should they bloom or continue to do what they do. If they continue, and I suspect they will, they will awaken more and more Americans to the American Stasi and the type of country America has become.

Honestly, it doesn't even matter if this was truly a suicide. Perhaps it was. With each additional "accidental" death, however, even the most obtuse and skeptical will begin to catch on.

[SilentFeathers]

the "in your face" purging has begun.

If this is real -- and I think it may be -- then the intention will be twofold:



To eliminate key opponents (as per the 'red list' plan).
To send a clear, unmistakable coded warning to all activists.


If the message has not yet been fully understood (i.e. Mike Adams being 'reasonable' and stating that he's not sure yet what to believe) -- then they will repeat it until it's sunk home.

Recommendation: watch extremely carefully everything that happens in the next couple of weeks.

Personally I am about at 90% in my own mind right now thinking this is real....sounds a bit insane though if it is real, but about every direction I look I see a bit of insanity!

RE: If this is "real", it's actually being done "legally" in the minds of some (NDAA)

[Cidersomerset]

Bob Nevritt at 90 yrs young is at the forefront of media intepretation, he calls the web our 'Chip body' and he was working for
intelligence agencies, since the 1940's.Born the son of a butler to a prominant illuminatti family or gated communities as
he called them in Paris, he has a unique insight into the merky going ons in the world over the past 70 yrs,,

he divides everything into meme's , Guttenburg body (printing press/books) Telegraph body, Radio body, TV body , chip body
and eventually leading to what he calls ascension the combining of the physical & non physical body, which is telepathy, instant
reality creation, the hologram that we can conciously control.Not the hologram/maitrix we are swimming in now in our descended
state Or something like that Bob modifies as events/ technology changes,

Anyway this preamble sets up the next bit ,TPTB have known this and have been able to stay one step infront untill now.
The chip body means we can all access thru the web all sorts of things only open to a few 15 yrs ago.This is scaring
the crap out of them.Hence cyber wars, Hackers and all the new scare stories they are setting up to take over
control of the web.These people are ruthless & to keep the Status Quo where the elite families control 95% of the
worlds resources. So to kill anyone speaking out beyond the general chatter of forums like this are looked upon
as a potential threat, and are silenced or taken out.This has been done all thru history in the Royal courts & families etc...

The good news is according to Bob & Ion we are coming to a point where we will not need computors, this maybe
true or not ? but TPTB are in their deathrows and a cornered beast is at its most dangerous, before put out of their
misery and consigned to the dustbin of eternity.......Steve..

[SilentFeathers]

The death of Swartz seems 99.9% random and quite believable to be a suicide.......until,

connecting it too:

On January 4, 2013 - Rifle Manufacturer John Noveske Mysteriously Killed Shortly After Posting Controversial Article
http://www.texasgopvote.com/issues/stop-big-government/gun-news-rifle-manufacturer-john-noveske-mysteriously-killed-shortly-after-005014

On January 8, 2013 - FPSRussia, (pro-gun youtube channel) employee found killed in Rural Georgia, US.
http://www.dailypaul.com/269207/fpsrussia-pro-gun-youtube-channel-employee-found-killed-in-rural-georgia-us

On January 11-2013 - Swartz found dead. Important to note he was an Obama "kill list" critic and quite "outspoken".

...then it becomes suspicious and "coincidental".....until,

connecting it too;

The Jones/Morgan interview event, the Sandy Hook shooting event, gun grabbing political agenda, Aurora shooting event, and even the Getzinger death in early 2012 (among a few other things)

....then a mysterious and strange pattern emerges that is somewhat beyond suspicious and "coincidental".

Is it just our imagination running wild to consider that something or someone has "intentionally" created or caused this strange pattern of events that seem to mysteriously dove-tail together??????

As Bill mentioned, will it be hammered in to us a bit more in the next couple weeks or so, so we (many of us) snap out of the doubt and or denial phase and get more in to the "I got the message" phase?

[ghostrider]

The ptb expose their hand when they move against free speech and firearms... once they control what they want, they can't blame mistakes on anyone but themselves because they control it ... no hiding anymore, no secrets anymore... I only hope this emboldens others to speak freely and openly... the harder they push, the more life will try and balance out ... creating a problem , they forget that move creates a solution ...life will always try and balance ...

[SilentFeathers]

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

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[Gardener]

Might we say 'night of long knives'

The death of Swartz seems 99.9% random and quite believable to be a suicide.......until,

connecting it too:

On January 4, 2013 - Rifle Manufacturer John Noveske Mysteriously Killed Shortly After Posting Controversial Article
http://www.texasgopvote.com/issues/stop-big-government/gun-news-rifle-manufacturer-john-noveske-mysteriously-killed-shortly-after-005014

On January 8, 2013 - FPSRussia, (pro-gun youtube channel) employee found killed in Rural Georgia, US.
http://www.dailypaul.com/269207/fpsrussia-pro-gun-youtube-channel-employee-found-killed-in-rural-georgia-us

On January 11-2013 - Swartz found dead. Important to note he was an Obama "kill list" critic and quite "outspoken".

...then it becomes suspicious and "coincidental".....until,

connecting it too;

The Jones/Morgan interview event, the Sandy Hook shooting event, gun grabbing political agenda, Aurora shooting event, and even the Getzinger death in early 2012 (among a few other things)

....then a mysterious and strange pattern emerges that is somewhat beyond suspicious and "coincidental".

Is it just our imagination running wild to consider that something or someone has "intentionally" created or caused this strange pattern of events that seem to mysteriously dove-tail together??????

As Bill mentioned, will it be hammered in to us a bit more in the next couple weeks or so, so we (many of us) snap out of the doubt and or denial phase and get more in to the "I got the message" phase?

[Corncrake]

I am still feeling sick about this. Suicide or murder? Either way it is murder as he was driven to it - a brilliant and honourable young man gone for ever.

Another excellent article this time from the Guardian: The Inspiring Heroism of Aaron Swartz: The internet freedom activist committed suicide on Friday at age 26, but his life was driven by courage and passion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/12/aaron-swartz-heroism-suicide1

[Muzz]

From RT

'Aaron was killed by the government' - Robert Swartz on his son's death

The father of information activist Aaron Swartz blames US prosecutors for his son’s death, RT’s Andrew Blake reports from an emotional Tuesday morning funeral outside of Chicago. read more (http://rt.com/usa/news/aaron-swartz-funeral-chicago-059/)

[Mark]

So, the perceived "safety" of being a Public Figure, known by thousands and millions is no guarantee of safety. Not that it ever really was. I think these deaths are indicative of the sensitivity of the areas that these people were involved in. The more important these areas are to the plans of the Elite factions, the more they are willing to risk public exposure by going after high profile figures in the alternative media.

[learninglight]

Hi all, sorry for long copy/paste job but its well worth the read imo

FYI Link : http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/aaron-swartz-was-murdered-he-faced-3-months-in-jail-not-35-years/

Aaron Swartz was Murdered – He Faced 3 Months in Jail Not 35 Years!
Posted on January 16, 2013 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton

Aaron Swartz did not take his own life. He was murdered in order to save the state the embarrassment of losing their trumped up trial against him. He faced a maximum of 6 months in jail, reduced to 3 for good behavior as is the law, not 35 years as the complicit press will tell you. He was killed so that a movement he helped lead would be crippled right before another SOPA / PIPA internet crushing bill is about to take shape. He was killed because he refused a deal and would have stoked the imagination of the opposition by winning in court. Unfortunately, far too few “alternative” activists out there are willing to make this statement. Activists who owe this young man a great deal as they enjoy a free and open internet which is about to close down forever.

Aaron Swartz was murdered and I am sure he won’t be the last. Perhaps the most obvious lesson here is too the “hacktivist” community at large: when we bust you and drum up charges against you, you turn and serve “the greater good” or… you get “Swartzed”.

Swartz was a leading and effective activist standing opposed to the neo-liberalization of America and the people investigating his death are Billioniare Bloomberg’s “mini-CIA”. Get the picture? I guess he’s lucky he wasn’t renditioned to Djibouti like other dissidents as is the custom under Obama.
When I first read the story of Aaron Swartz I have to say I was not all that impressed with the guy. He seemed like just another “tech-geek miracle” made by the Intelligence Department Industrial Complex like so many before him. I based that on what I saw happen to Reddit first-hand when they sold themselves to Conde Nast and began a program of running down important articles on Reddit and totally erasing some as soon as they were posted.

And I am also aware that the shareware and open-software world which Aaron was involved in, is full of Trojans and trackers and cognitive infiltrators doing all they can to put all kinds of interesting software on your computer that does all kinds of malicious stuff.
Top all of that off with his involvement in the “hacktivist’ community which is replete with hackers who have been busted and now serve “the greater good” through the FBI and the NSA and you have basically a resume of deception for Mr. Swartz. Wired magazine raves about him, which is reason enough to be suspicious of anyone. If a globalist rag like that raved about my mother I would have to start watching her closely as well. Very closely.
But after seeing a couple of his videos and reading a bit more about him I’m starting to think he may have at least had some good intentions about him. He seems to have the right idea. When he talks about stopping SOPA and PIPA he doesn’t talk about what HE did, he talks about what WE did. He rightly says that institutions like GOOGLE jumped on the publicity bandwagon once they knew the game was up as did many lawmakers. And that is true. He says what is important too remember is that we as a community stopped one of the most sought after freedom crushing bills by simply coming together and saying no and in that he is absolutely correct.
The narrative is now that he killed himself due to this pending federal case but is simply bull****.

From what I can tell of the guy, he was looking forward to beating it on behalf of himself and the cause and it looks like there are many who are much more educated on the case than I am who say it was a weak case at best and he was bound to win it.
In fact, the husband of the over-reaching prosecutor who brought the case against him on behalf of Eric Holder’s Justice Department claims that they had offered him a 6 month deal meaning he would have been sentenced to 6 months in jail and probably served half of that.

Swartz was so confident in his ability to beat the charges, that he refused that deal about 2 months ago, preferring to go to trial.

Fact is, he made a mistake. He chose to live in New York City where Billionaire Mayor For Life is in charge of the police department and has his own “mini-CIA” in the NYPD Intelligence Division. And we all know what the CIA does too prominent activists and leaders in other countries when they stand opposed to our “national interests”, don’t we?

You can expect the investigation into the scene in his home to be, shall we say, less than meticulous. In fact, best bet as too his murders may have actually been the Intelligence Division guys assigned to the investigation. But that’s just a guess. Damn sure makes more sense than “suicide”

By all accounts this was a good guy. He was about to poke another stick in the eye of the ruling class and their Vichy politicians once again. The “Justice” Department couldn’t back down or that would have ceded more ground to the “extremists” and provided us with more fuel yet again. They couldn’t take him to trial, like Gadhafi before him, because that would have exposed them as weak and over-reaching to make a political point.
By offering him a 6 month (3 month really) deal on a case which is being hailed as a 35 year sentence in the complicit media outlets, they were BEGGING to be let off the hook. But Aaron Swartz didn’t bite. He had them where he wanted them and he knew it.

He also probably knew that suicide would not only be a coward’s way out for him, but would damage the cause he seemed to care deeply about.

Judging from what little I know about him and what little I have seen and heard him say, Aaron Swartz was not a coward. And no matter how many times the Vichy prestitutes wave that “suicide note” in front of you, remember, he wrote that in 2007… basically as a joke.
Swartz died without leaving a note. He died leaving a hole in the cause that he cared deeply for. And he knew in his heart that up until the judge rang down the gavel to start the trial, he could always have taken the 3 month plea deal (which by then would have been even better!) and not faced 35 years in prison.
He also died on the very same day that monolitic and massive Verizon announced it’s own “6 strikes rule” which would effectively sensor Verizon’s customers by almost completely removing them from the internet if some “copyright holder’ filed a “complaint” against them.

Swarts would surely have had a field day with that.
Effectively what has happened is a voice for the people was silenced. He was taken out of the game and the alternative “activist” community is sitting back scared saying very little or next to nothing which is not only a crying shame, it’s an insult to the man who seems to have given his life for one of our most basic freedoms.
He won’t be the last
.
One thing that I really liked about this guy in the little I know about him is his opinion on knowledge and that it belongs to all of us. He said, and I paraphrase “Access to knowledge must not be measured by access to money” and that is why he hacked into the JSTOR files and released those academic journals for all the people for free. That was his major crime against humanity that the Obama Justice Department wanted to prosecute him for and that is ultimately why he died.
I wish to put this bluntly: Aaron Swartz was murdered. All the circumstantial evidence points to it. In the land of the Bloomberg Gestapo, there will be no real investigation, there will be no hard evidence to support that claim. But I feel that is the case and I am sorry and almost ashamed that the alternative community that owes at least partly their current measure of freedom of speech to Aaron, have not come out in droves to protest what has happened

Aaron’s father said the government killed his son. He has a different take on how, but in reality, he is absolutely correct.
He just doesn’t know how correct

Sharon

[Sabrina]

http://www.aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/jewish-hero-aaron-swartz-exposing-elite_16.html

16 Jan

JEWISH HERO AARON SWARTZ; EXPOSING ELITE CHILD ABUSE

Aaron Swartz may be a hero, who was murdered for trying to expose dangerous elite pedophiles.

Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly, asks:

"Was Aaron Swartz killed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Satanic Child Porn Ring?"

Reportedly, MIT is linked to an elite child abuse ring, and Aaron Swartz was trying to expose this ring.

According to:

http://rense.com/general95/swartz.html

1. Swartz was a risk to the people at MIT who produce child porn for "a clientele that includes the highest echelon of the State Department, major corporations, intelligence agencies, the military brass, and the White House."

It appears that swartz "died in a heroic attempt to expose the perversion that has corrupted the hearts and minds of the global elite..."

(pix at link)

Nicholas Negroponte with the notorious President Kagame. "The 'One Laptop per Child' project was initiated by the MIT Media Lab founder, who is the brother of former UN ambassador and intelligence official John Negroponte."

2. Nicholas Negroponte works with MIT and allegedly is involved with child abuse videos.

"Nicholas Negroponte, you have no place to hide... You are under watch and will be relentlessly tracked down, not just for child porn and pimping children but now as an accomplice to murder.

"Your only way out is to turn over the video files along with the entire list of names, and you had better do it sooner than later because the powerful pedophiles on that list are going to silence you to cover their own tracks...."

3. From 2003 till 2009, Yoichi Shimatsu worked on-and-off in Cambodia with an international team of anti-pedophilia activists.

"The team came to Cambodia following up on a slew of leads, including photos of naked infants taken by Newsweek Tokyo bureau chief Bernard Krisher on display at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong, a den of pedophiles connected with the Jimmy Savile case.

"Former British Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patton is now widely suspected as a high-level protector of the satanic BBC rapist and his old-boy circle..."

4. Reportedly, an orphanage was used for child abuse.

"The Cambodian police shut down the orphanage’s satellite-link tower, which was being used to uplink child-porn videos and connect American pedophiles to their little sweethearts.

"The teachers told me that computers and satellite communication system were installed and maintained by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the MIT Media Lab.

"“Nick was a frequent visitor and one of the orphanage sponsors who arranged the weekend pajama parties in the city whenever foreign VIPs arrived,” a teacher told me....

"The “One Laptop per Child” project was initiated by the MIT Media Lab founder, who is the brother of former UN ambassador and intelligence official John Negroponte.

"The Zionist brothers have family origins in the Jewish community of Greece."

5. "A quick look at MIT Media Lab reveals some questionable characters at the helm...

"- Frank Moss, who was trained at the Technion Institute in Haifa, a center for the Israeli Defense Force’s cyberwarfare R andD projects. The Media Lab itself is heavily involved in military-related projects with the US Air Force, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, the Army Research Office and Google, which is a high-tech contractor in artificial intelligence for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) .

"- Joi Ito, who once ran a nightclub in Roppongi, Tokyo’s drug-peddling and prostitution district run by a yakuza boss whose interest lies in Caucasian models performing coprophilia and bondage, increasingly favorite video themes besides child porn among the American university technocrati.

"Since he never earned a higher degree, Ito’s main qualification is apparently his status as godson of Timothy Leary. For those who were/are too stoned to comprehend political reality, Leary began his drug experimentation as a psychologist for the MK-ULTRA mind-control program and became a proselytizer of hallucinogens under a CIA psy-op campaign to disable the antiwar movement."

6. "MIT Media Lab is yet another spin-off from the all-powerful MK-ULTRA and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).

"No wonder it’s been producing child porn and involved in overseas pedophilia. The One Laptop program is a clever vehicle to provide early sex education to children across impoverished Asia and Africa who have yet to reach pubescence."

7. "As in the campaign of character assassination that led to the downfall of Eliot Spitzer, the assault on Aaron Swartz is another example of a crusading American Jewish individual being persecuted, punished and likely executed by their Zionist “brethren”.

"Swartz’s death by hanging is a microcosm of the sort of brutal mafia enforcement within the Jewish “community”, which unfortunately has gone nearly unreported in the Zionist-controlled media.

8. "Swartz was a research fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, which is based at Harvard and in Israel.

"This much-needed program was organized by Lily Safra, the plucky spouse of a Syrian Jewish banker who died in a mysterious arson on his mansion in Monaco...

9. "Edmond Safra was a banker for the Aleppo Jewish community, which over the millennia has been renowned for scholarship and good relations with Muslim and Christian neighbors.

"The Aleppo synagogue... was the center of traditionalist Sephardic moral resistance to the secular, authoritarian and Eurocentric Zionists led by the Rothschild clan."

10. "The Zionist killing of dissenting Jews was a policy of the Haganah militia.

"The newborn Israeli state, under President Yitzak Ben-Zvi, a leader of the Rothschild-backed Haganah, ordered the extrajudicial execution of outspoken Dutch Jewish activist Jacob de Haan, who proposed that Jews should support a non-religious state of Palestine shared with Arabs, instead of endorsing the bigotry of a separatist entity...

"The fact that the ancient city of Aleppo is now being leveled to the ground is no fluke of history, it is the inevitable consequence of the systematic destruction of the Mideast by Zionist ambitions...

11. In Memory of Sean Parlaman

"Another young American, Sean Parlaman, who “fell” from a high-rise window in Pattaya, Thailand, in 2002, was the leading anti-pedophile activist of his generation...

"Parlaman started investigating child-trafficking across the Burma border.

"Along that militarized frontier, the Mossad and CIA under the cover of refugee aid programs have continuously smuggled in weapons and explosives, used for killing civilians in Myanmar, in exchange for opium and children.

"It is an injustice indeed that Sean did not live to see the 2009 police arrest of the politically connected second-generation Baptist missionary Robert Moss, aka Bobby Morse, on charges of sex with preteen tribal girls. At least, Parlaman is vindicated.

"The pedophiles have been able to abduct, abuse and sometimes murder children across Southeast Asia because of protection from U.S. embassies in the region.

12. "The unofficial but widely recognized dean of the criminalized diplomats is Ralph “Skip” Boyce, former ambassador to Jakarta and later to Bangkok.

"It was during his tenure in Thailand that Negroponte and Krisher set up shop in neighboring Cambodia.

"It was earlier during his years in Indonesia that the skeletal remains of more 50 boys were discovered inside a cave in Bali.

"Anti-pedophile activist call him Ralphie Boyz.

"This sorry excuse for an ambassador later left diplomatic service to head Boeing in Southeast Asia, a region known for kickbacks in military and civilian aircraft sales...."

Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly, is a science journalist based in Hong Kong.




and MIT website and Anon:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/13/anonymous-appears-to-have-hacked-mit-website-leaves-swartz-tribute/

Anonymous Appears To Have Hacked MIT Website, Leaves Swartz Tribute

Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, appears to have hacked MIT’s website and left a tribute message to the late Internet activist, Aaron Swartz. ”We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites,” writes a postscript to a memorial note posted by Anonymous, on a subdomain of the official MIT.edu website. “We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all those feel heavy-hearted in their proximity to this awful loss to acknowledge instead the responsibility they have — that we all have — to build and safeguard a future that would make Aaron proud”.

Earlier this evening, MIT’s network went offline and there was notable evidence that Anonymous had caused the outage.

Swartz was set to stand trial next month for releasing millions of pay-walled academic papers from the popular JSTOR database. The case has set off a firestorm of online protest related to overzealous litigation and copyright policy and the President of MIT has called for a formal investigation of the accusations.

The hacked page calls for an investigation into the Swartz case, the reformation of copyright policy, and greater protections for a free Internet. The page also posted an open-information manifesto Swartz composed, “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto”.

For now, the link here is still live. Since it will likely be taken offline soon (if it was indeed a hacked page), we have posted the full message below in block quotes,

In Memoriam, Aaron Swartz, November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013, Requiescat in pace.

A brief message from Anonymous.

Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government’s prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for — freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a 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.

Moreover, the situation Aaron found himself in highlights the injustice of U.S. computer crime laws, particularly their punishment regimes, and the highly-questionable justice of pre-trial bargaining. Aaron’s act was undoubtedly political activism; it had tragic consequences.

Our wishes

We call for this tragedy to be a basis for reform of computer crime laws, and the overzealous prosecutors who use them.
We call for this tragedy to be a basis for reform of copyright and intellectual property law, returning it to the proper principles of common good to the many, rather than private gain to the few.
We call for this tragedy to be a basis for greater recognition of the oppression and injustices heaped daily by certain persons and institutions of authority upon anyone who dares to stand up and be counted for their beliefs, and for greater solidarity and mutual aid in response.
We call for this tragedy to be a basis for a renewed and unwavering commitment to a free and unfettered internet, spared from censorship with equality of access and franchise for all.
For in the end, we will not be judged according to what we give, but according to what we keep to ourselves.

Aaron, we will sorely miss your friendship, and your help in building a better world. May you read in peace.

—-

Who was Aaron Swartz? A hero in the SOPA/PIPA campaign, Reddit cofounder, RSS, Demand Progress, Avaaz, etc…:

Aaron Swartz’s funeral is on Tuesday. Here are details:

Remove United States District Attorney Carmen Ortiz from office for overreach in the case of #Aaron Swartz

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Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.

That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.

“I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal — there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back.

Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.

Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends.

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.

With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

Aaron Swartz

July 2008, Eremo, Italy

—–

You were the best of us; may you yet bring out the best in us.

-Anonymous, Jan 13, 2013.

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(Postscript: We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites. We understand that it is a time of soul-searching for all those within this great institution as much — perhaps for some involved even more so — than it is for the greater internet community. We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all those feel heavy-hearted in their proximity to this awful loss to acknowledge instead the responsibility they have — that we all have — to build and safeguard a future that would make Aaron proud, and honour the ideals and dedication that burnt so brightly within him by embodying them in thought and word and action. Original frontpage)