{"id":14345,"date":"2013-01-12T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T01:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2013\/01\/12\/14345.html"},"modified":"2013-01-12T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T01:03:20","slug":"some-links-about-aaron-swartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2013\/01\/12\/some-links-about-aaron-swartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Some links about Aaron Swartz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I didn't know Aaron Swartz, the brilliant Internet activist who committed suicide yesterday at age 26, but friends of mine did. I had heard about, and been bothered by, the extreme overreaction of the US government to Swartz's downloading a large number of documents from JSTOR (see the Lessig and Stamos links below for details), but I hadn't really been paying attention to developments since then.<\/p>\n<p>I'm very sorry to hear about his death. I've seen some really moving and compelling eulogies to him today (in my earlier tweet linking to one of them, I wrote &ldquo;obituary,&rdquo; but I meant &ldquo;eulogy&rdquo;), plus other articles talking about him and his life and the JSTOR incident; after about the third one that made me cry, I decided it was time I posted some links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Cory Doctorow: <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/01\/12\/rip-aaron-swartz.html\">RIP, Aaron Swartz<\/a><\/li>\n  <li>Quinn Norton: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=644\">My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved.<\/a><\/li>\n  <li>Lawrence Lessig: <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.tumblr.com\/post\/40347463044\/prosecutor-as-bully\">Prosecutor as bully<\/a><\/li>\n  <li>Alex Stamos, who was going to be an expert witness testifying for Swartz: <a href=\"http:\/\/unhandled.com\/2013\/01\/12\/the-truth-about-aaron-swartzs-crime\/\">The Truth about Aaron Swartz&#8217;s &#8220;Crime&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n  <li>Glenn Greenwald of the <cite>Guardian<\/cite>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jan\/12\/aaron-swartz-heroism-suicide1\">The inspiring heroism of Aaron Swartz<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/soupsoup.tumblr.com\/post\/40373383323\/official-statement-from-the-family-and-partner-of\">Official statement from his family and partner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My sympathies to those of you who knew him. He sounds like he was a really remarkable guy, and he made the world a better place.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know Aaron Swartz, the brilliant Internet activist who committed suicide yesterday at age 26, but friends of mine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,71,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-intellectual-property","category-web-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}