I would normally never post something from the NY Post on HN, but my jaw dropped when I made it about 5 paragraphs down and read this:
Swartz was also an avid Internet activist, who pushed to make web files open to the public. He opposed the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” which keeps hackers from swiping web content such as music and movies.
But that mindset got him into trouble in June 2012, when federal officers arrested him for allegedly downloading academic journals on the subscription-only website JSTOR.com.
Unfortunately, propagandizing SOPA is nothing new for NewsCorp, if you remember the dozens of pro-SOPA articles and editorials in the WSJ at the time, but I still can't believe that their editorial marching orders would extend to an obituary.
Swartz was also an avid Internet activist, who pushed to make web files open to the public. He opposed the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” which keeps hackers from swiping web content such as music and movies.
But that mindset got him into trouble in June 2012, when federal officers arrested him for allegedly downloading academic journals on the subscription-only website JSTOR.com.
Unfortunately, propagandizing SOPA is nothing new for NewsCorp, if you remember the dozens of pro-SOPA articles and editorials in the WSJ at the time, but I still can't believe that their editorial marching orders would extend to an obituary.