Jacob Appelbaum in Germany - Aaron Swartz

[Cari Machet]

shut the fuck up

who is arrogant (and simplistic)? u

On 1/6/14, James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
> On 2014-01-07 03:18, John Young wrote:
>  > Swartz was ratted by a sysadmin, investigated by several sysadmins,
>  > some who formerly helped him and were pressured to betray him,
>  > indicted with the essential help of sysadmins. University and JSTOR
>  > administrators could not have discovered him , aided the
>  > investigation, cooperated with the prosecutor, without sysadmins.
>  > The cops and prosecutor could not have caught, investigated, coerced
>  > witnesses, indicted and killed Swarz without sysadmins. Some of
>  > those sysadmins are under lifetime vows of secrecy for cooperating
>  > against Swartz.
>
> They were not "ratting" on him
>
> A sysadmin tries to keep his systems working.  Aaron Swartz was
> disruptively trespassing on their systems - he was arrogantly and
> obnoxiously aggressing against them.
>
> And that, in fact, was what he was charged with, not with releasing
> JSTOR IP property, but with screwing up other people's computers.
>
> If he had been furtive about collecting the data, the way Snowden was,
> there never would have been any problem.
>
> The problem was that Aaron Swartz was an arrogant asshole who thought
> he was ruling class and above the law, and that those he aggressed
> against were menials beneath the law - the Henry Louis Gates
> phenomenon.
>
> One of the things our ruling class filters against is conspicuous and
> obnoxious arrogance.  They don't want us noticing them.  Aaron Swartz
> failed the conspicuous arrogance filter before being granted tenure,
> so suddenly found himself no longer ruling class.
>
>


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