Days of reflecting

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Lessig

There’s no work that can be done today, save the work to talking about this story. I’m doing a bunch of interviews. Bravo to @DemocracyNow for spending an hour today on this. Here’s my bit: 

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18 Responses to Days of reflecting

  1. frances lux says:
    January 17, 2013 at 3:55 pm

    Dear Lawrence Lessig:
    I viewed your interview on Democracy Now and felt your pain as you wondered what more you could have done to prevent this premature death. It is a continual life lesson of how very fragile the gift of life can be, and many of us have been in similar positions, wondering what more we could have done.
    I think Aaron might have felt he gave so much to other causes, and here he was alone to fight this charge.
    It may only be coincidental, but I wondered if the death of Aaron gave more courage to the judge in the Bradley Manning case to rule that the government must prove the spurious allegation of abetting “the enemy” or whatever it is called technically, etc.
    Aaron Schwartz actions and prosecution reads like a chapter from “Alice in Wonderland”, “Off with your Head”.
    Hopefully Aaron’s death will be the straw that is breaking the camel’s back in this absurd disconnect where real crimes go unpunished and rewarded, and social activism is prosecuted, as you have said.
    Though tragic, I don’t think he died in vain.

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  4. Alicia says:
    March 1, 2013 at 5:41 am

    No doubt it’s ingenious. Seriously, kudos to the guy for trniyg. I just think he’s still seriously out of touch with America. I won’t be voting for him simply because he is using the internet to his advantage. I do hope that it is a trend that catches on. But technology aside, his politics just aren’t my style.Aaron

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  9. demirdöküm kombi servisi says:
    September 1, 2013 at 3:39 am

    Just tears and sadness.. my deepest wish is that Aaron’s sacrifice will not be forgotten. Or as Joe Campbell said: ‘Out of chaos comes new life..life more abundant’….Don’t give up this fight Prof. Lessig, without you, this ship will be no more…

  10. vaillant kombi servisi says:
    September 1, 2013 at 3:40 am

    This is a measure of who we have become. And we don’t even notice it. We can’t even see the extremism that we have allowed to creep into our law

  11. protherm kombi servisi says:
    September 1, 2013 at 3:42 am

    Hmm, I think lots of us have seen it. I’ve thought for most of my life that we live in a police state, albeit one that is less efficient than Nazi Germany. Sometimes I call it a “soft police state,” but somehow that doesn’t quite fit. I tend to think of Russia under the Tsars for a parallel.sdg

  12. eca kombi servisi says:
    September 1, 2013 at 3:43 am

    This all started as a byproduct of an online “virtual brawl” I got into with a number of people, some of them professional SF authors, over the issue of online piracy of copyrighted works and what to do about it.
    There was a school of thought, which seemed to be picking up steam, that the way to handle the problem was with handcuffs and brass knucks

  13. vestel klima servisi says:
    September 1, 2013 at 3:44 am

    I don’t think Aaron intended to die to free JSTOR, and I think what happened in this case made it far bigger than the initial political protest Aaron was attempting. It started out as being about who gets access to taxpayer funded research, but now it is about the way the Iron Heel of the State comes down, hard, on anyone who dares to protest.

  14. klima servisi says:
    September 1, 2013 at 3:45 am

    This case finally showed the message, written in blood in ten foot high letters that our system is evil, corrupt and brutal. I’ve known this for most of my life, and I’m sad that it took a suicide of a decent person to wake other people up to it. (Not everyone either. I’ve noticed lots of people making excuses for the State here, but it is not nice to face up to what our system has become.)

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  16. kombi servisi says:
    September 1, 2013 at 3:48 am

    Aaron’s case is just one of many cases where prosecutors use these tactics to get to a plea bargain. I know from first hand experience that this asf“extremism” has indeed crept into our statutes/laws. And I’ve been asking myself how the hell has this come to be? I mean who decided that these laws made sense? And since our ordeal with my son being arçelik klima servisi

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