JSTOR, which settled a civil claim against Swartz in 2011 after he returned the files he downloaded, said the company was "deeply saddened" to hear about his death. The institute did not immediately respond to questions from the Guardian about the Anonymous message. In a statement on Sunday, MIT president Rafael Reif said he had appointed a professor to review the university's involvement in the case. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death." "It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. "Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy," the statement said.
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The attack on MIT's website cut off campus users from internet access for three hours on Sunday evening, according to The Tech, MIT's newspaper.Ī statement issued by Swartz's family late on Saturday blamed MIT for the prolonged legal battle for a "crime with no victims", and said it "refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community's most cherished principles".
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"We call for this tragedy to be a basis for a renewed and unwavering commitment to a free and unfettered internet, spared from censorship with equality of access and franchise for all" the message said. The post, which also called for reform of copyright and intellectual property law and a "free and unfettered internet", linked to a petition for the removal of US district attorney Carmen Ortiz, who has been accused by Swartz supporters of using "overreaching charges". Aaron's act was undoubtedly political activism it had tragic consequences." computer crime laws, particularly their punishment regimes, and the highly-questionable justice of pre-trial bargaining. "Moreover, the situation Aaron found himself in highlights the injustice of U.S. "Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government's prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for – freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it – enabling the collective betterment of the world through the facilitation of sharing – an ideal that we should all support. The message, in red type, said it did not hold MIT responsible, and apologised to the institution for the "temporary use of their websites", but described Swartz's prosecution as a "gross miscarriage of justice". On Sunday, a memorial to Swartz and a message calling for an overhaul of US computer crime laws appeared on MIT websites. His family have accused prosecutors and MIT officials of being complicit in his death.
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