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DID THE GOVERNMENT DRIVE AARON SWARTZ TO SUICIDE?

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

Aaron Swartz believed in technology's power to liberate and democratize and vowed to fight anything which threatened that potential. As Sheldon Richman writes, this offended powerful vested interests. In Les Misérables, an obsessed French police officer, Javert, relentlessly pursues Jean Valjean, a man who represents no danger to society but ...