Cato’s Timothy Lee’s conflict of interest with regard to Aaron Swartz?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 21st at 11:00 AM  | 

So, let’s walk through this interesting defense-via-faint-damnation of Aaron Swartz by Timothy B Lee. Timothy B. Lee’s article, summed up, is as follows: Aaron Swartz was right to hack into JSTOR and take all those articles without paying for them, but he went about being right very, very stupidly by physically breaking into things while stealing downloading other people’s articles. [Somebody on Twitter made the | Read More »

Telecommie* Aaron Swartz’s federal indictment (and unpersoning by Larry Lessig).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 20th at 11:00 AM  | 

The formal indictment of PCCC/Reddit** co-founder (and Demand Progress Executive Director) Aaron Swartz is available [link fixed], and you will find it compelling reading, if only because it shows the level of stubborn disregard for other people’s property and needs that can be exhibited by a telecommie geek who is simultaneously convinced of the rightness of his cause, and not especially overburdened with a sense | Read More »