Ask HN: Can anyone give me a good reference on the Aaron Swartz case?

7 pointsposted 16 hours ago
by zusammen

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10 Comments

MaxGripe

13 hours ago

Btw, there is a movie worth watching: „The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz”

downrightmike

16 hours ago

It goes back further. the NSA podcast No Such Podcast put out the first half of Grace Hooper's speech to them is a good look at problems. Remember these are people problems first, CompSci Second.

Shortly: Grace Hopper's speeches, particularly her lecture titled "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People," highlighted the critical importance of understanding the value of data and information, predicting that the growing volume of data would require systems to prioritize and analyze information effectively, rather than just accumulating it without purpose;

All problems are people problems because we are all directly linked together. The further out in the universe we look, the more closely we are linked to our problems.

dangus

16 hours ago

You want us to do your research for you?

zusammen

13 hours ago

No. I do plenty of my own, but he was connected to this community so I will get a better sense of what is trustworthy and what is relevant here.

brudgers

12 hours ago

When he was connected to HN, HN was different than today…for example a much smaller fraction of today’s HN’ers ever knew him…or even know of him. Back then the community was much much smaller and more intimate.

I never knew him. But I know that the people who did were profoundly wounded. I mention it because it is better if you proceed accordingly with that knowledge. And not only for your own ends.

Good luck.

zusammen

11 hours ago

Thank you. One of the things I would really like to get to the bottom of is the question of why he could not accept the 6-month plea deal. Was it because he feared incarceration, or did his managers and investors do an inadequate job of reassuring him that his career would be protected in spite of the felony? If the latter, this community has a right to know.

brudgers

10 hours ago

One of the things I would really like to get

I feel like you might have missed my point.