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SOPA activist dead
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SOPA activist dead
Aaron Swartz found dead in alleged suicide after spending the last two years fighting federal hacking charges.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/12...63726.html
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You do realize that he died back in January? I would be shocked if someone had not mentioned it on here already.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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Yes, I couldn't find a thread on it.
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Yeah, I remember reading that story, a really sad day in history. As always, the people responsible for helping the advancement of society end up prosecuted by those who don't but somehow claim ownership to things they don't make.
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There should be an international treaty that basically makes the Internet international waters and no company can be forced to have over any information as that information technically out of there justiction.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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