Bunch of Lying Assholes: MIT's report about the Aaron Swartz case claims MIT was neutral and is not
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[URL="http://boingboing.net/2013/07/30/mit-report-on-aaron-swartzs.html"]MIT report on Aaron Swartz's prosecution is out, and it's a "whitewash"[/URL]
[QUOTE]MIT's report on its involvement in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz (PDF) has been published. The report does not apportion any blame to the university for Swartz's prosecution, stating the the university operated as a "neutral party."
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Aaron's partner, vigorously disputes the report's findings, calling it a whitewash, pointing out that MIT provided significant aid to the federal prosecutors who chased Aaron over downloading technical aritcles (which he was entitled to see) from its network, but refused to supply the same documents to the defense team, who desperately needed them. This makes MIT's claim of "neutrality" ring false.
Further, Larry Lessig has posted some preliminary thoughts on MIT's position, pointing out that it turned on a question of authorized or unauthorized access, and that the report says MIT never told the prosecutors that Aaron's access was "unauthorized," suggesting that the prosecutors knew they had no case.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://tarensk.tumblr.com/post/56881327662/mit-report-is-a-whitewash-my-statement-in-response"]Aaron's partner is not impressed.[/URL]
MIT, this is your credibility and integrity today: :suicide:
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