On humanity, a big failure in Aaron Swartz case - The Boston Globe »

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If it was beyond scandalous that Aaron Swartz was facing prison time for downloading a bunch of obscure academic treatises, it is beyond tragic that he is now dead. Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment last Friday, and while we will never know for sure why, many who know him best say that prosecutors bullied him to the grave. At the least, prosecutors lacked proportionality and basic humanity and they tried to imprison an emotionally vulnerable young man who didn’t make a penny from his alleged crimes. Source Main page (current trends)

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