Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz commits suicide in midst of controversial trial

The family of internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz has blamed the U.S. criminal justice system for his death - READ MORE http://on.rt.com/qgqc02
The 26-year-old co-founder of social news website Reddit hanged himself in his New York apartment on Friday. Swartz faced 13 felony charges connected with hacking the network of MIT University and downloading academic papers online. He could have spent decades in prison for charges he pleaded not guilty to. And a representative of the Pirate group from the Berlin parliament, Fabio Reinhardt, says that just isn't fair.

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[BARAC OBAMA]

we gonna get you any way , you think Hacker ,there no way out ,we know were we trays

[Joh Coh]

Reddit is deddit.

[lambchops61]

oh

[Mark Hermanson]

Actually, he is correct. The past tense of someone killing themselves by hanging is hanged. It is the only time that word is used. All other times it is hung.

[Chloe wilson]

Hi: Don't tell me they have already started.  I will look it up. Is there anything they don't have their hands into? Thank you

[TJae1]

They obviously have good taste ~ :>D

[595o]

non-sequitur

[AmetKhos]

I will quote you a sentence from a letter to a mother to her son in the civil war: "The Confederates claim that we strike at their liberties and rights, but what kind of liberty is it that seeks to take away the liberties of others."Right to privacy is a fundamental,constitutional right, whether it is a private person or a business,which is comprised of persons.You are a traitor to your fellow Americans, seeking to infringe on their rights to privacy,and you should be treated as such,a criminal.