I'm being an asshole because it's to underscore a point about how people like yourself engage with this conversation. You don't even have the basic facts and you mouth off like you're knowledgeable, but you're not. Look at the garbage you've spewed in just a paragraph:
> The prosecution was considering a no jail plea bargain, but MIT would not agree to the deal.
Wrong. MIT didn't WANT Aaron Swartz prosecuted from the get-go. It was Carmen Ortiz who pushed for charges, wanting a desirable conviction under that digital crime act.
>It's a fact that Aaron was facing a realistic outcome of 6 months or less, with a oossibility of no time
He would've had to have admitted that he was essentially a digital domestic terrorist. He wanted to fight the charges because he was innocent of what they were accusing him of. It was bullshit about opening a locked computer cabinet to download _public domain articles_ being equivalent to high-level wire fraud and CFAA violations. The maximum penalties were 35 years in prison and $1M in fines. These laws were not intended to prosecute someone who did what he did.
I'm angry because boomer retards have a certain synaptic failure where they're unable to process anything beyond "well uh if he had just taken that plea deal, he'd only have to serve a few months in tha prison [and pay just a few tens of thousands of dollars, plus a hundred thousand dollars in legal fees--never mentioned]".
>He's your martyr.
Wrong, and you don't know anything about me. And irrelevant to the argument. Fuck off.
>Your problem is that he's not our martyr. From your AI Yes, it is accurate that Aaron Swartz
You need your rest