Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?
Updated with PDF documents and new links.
I recently saw the documentary on Aaron Swartz called, The Internet’s Own Boy. Overall, a very comprehensive account of his life and work but it failed regarding major parts of the narrative, such as Swartz being opposed to online child pornography and was an activist against it. In fact, the MIT Media Lab was founded by Nicholas Negroponte, a procurer of children for sex/rape films and sex parties for the elites in government and business. It has been speculated that the MIT servers were being used to funnel this illegal and immoral content, such as child pornography Swartz was an was an activist against it. In fact, the MIT Media Lab was founded by Nicholas Negroponte, a procurer of children for sex/rape films and sex parties for the elites in government and business. It has been speculated that the MIT servers were being used to funnel this illegal and immoral content.
The film attempts to cover the central question regarding why the government went after Swartz so ruthlessly for downloading JSTOR scholarly journals at MIT for which he was not distributing or selling. The film totally fails in this concern and concentrates instead on how flimsy the charges were and Swartz’s refusal to plea bargain. The idea that he may have uncovered illegal content in the server closet at MIT is totally ignored. (And he might, considering how long the downloading times were, indicating images and video clips.) Shameful, as this would help to explain why Federal prosecutors were so zealous in their desire to incarcerate Swartz.
How lame the case was against Swartz is highlighted by Michelle Dean of The Nation:
“The most charitable characterization of these charges is that the DoJ sought to enforce the copyright JSTOR had in its database by way of prosecuting Swartz for his ‘unauthorized’ use of MIT’s network to download it. That description leaves out that JSTOR’s copyright was the result of merely scanning articles that are widely available to every university student in the country, whose genesis and publication were (mostly) taxpayer-funded activities in the first place, and whose authors, largely academics, tend to be sanguine about their being copied far and wide. This weak philosophical claim to “own” these papers may be what led JSTOR to reportedly back off quite early in the case. But isn’t it worth considering why there is such a gap between the present position of the copyright laws and that philosophical claim? In a better world we’d be thinking about those questions. In this one, we’re dickering over the tactics Swartz used to highlight the issue.”
Linked here is one of the best articles on Aaron Swartz and his courageous efforts to combat the trafficking and abuse of children by Yoichi Shimatsu from January of 2012 entitled, Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring? The main thesis is that Swartz uncovered the porn traffic and sought to expose it. Nothing covers this story better than Shimatsu’s article and all concerned with this issue should read it.
https://rense.com/general95/swartz.html
Just a sampling of released and in same cases redacted documents from crytome.org regarding Aaron Swartz.
For more go to https://cryptome.org/cryptome-2016-1996.htm and search — Aaron Swartz.
Sources
The Case of Aaron Swartz by Michelle Dean
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/case-aaron-swartz/
List of Documents Allegedly Downloaded by Aaron Swartz
https://cryptome.org/2013/01/aaron-swartz/swartz-dl-docs.txt
The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz by David Amsden
(Originally posted at Outward Trends in 2021 and updated here.)
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