James, again thanks for alerting: <Snowden, on the other hand, did. There are striking similarities between Swartz's expectations and Snowden's. Swartz came to believe from multiple dissenting actions which received praise and admiration from journalists, mentors. co-conspirators, colleagues, friends and lovers that he was on the right track, a bright young man putting his skills to noble use. When the federal axe came down by instigation of "noble" institutions and ignoble publishers, armed with copyright weapons of mass disruption, these supporters went runnng, not at first, only after severe threats of punishment of economic, personal and career damage were applied. So far Snowden has had the exact same treatment, even a lover or two, salacious rumors imply, pillow talk revelations a fave of the TLAs in all nations and sysadmin covens. While Swartz did not have the global acclaim of Snowden, the parties involved are behaving in quite similar ways to Swartz's case, and it behooves pardon legal behooves, to watch his ass as time goes by and threats of sigmatization and prosecution are issued by spies, gov, courts and prosecutors, (threats still looming for Gonggrijp, Appelbaum, Jonsdottir, Barrett Brown and those ratted by Sabu, others unknown) especially for threats aimed at devoted supporters, one by one in secret, not all of whom are wholly devoted for the long run. So it was with Swartz and other sacrificial lambs so it will be for whoever falls for the bait and switch so formulaic in media world. There are also considerable similarities for Manning, Anonymous and a slew of whistleblowers, a fair number of them winding up in jail, Others were turned into informants, some of identified others still confidential. These propects have been amply covered here and it is to be expected that disavowals of support, "needs killing," will be uttered formulaicly as Ayn Rand fountainheaded. What is admirable, and deserves thanks, is that the stream of Swartzs and Snowdens seems to be increasing, fewer are running away when the axe is raised. Why in a couple of cases the axe was deployed verily where the plan was hatched to politicize Swartz's assassination. And how will Snowden be protected from political assassination? That is how will he be protected from media homicide?
As I am fond of remarking, Bill Ayers can bomb the Pentagon, but you cannot. Swartz thought he was Bill Ayers.