The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Aaron Swartz
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Op-Doc: Why Care About the NSA?
Edward Snowden has ignited a debate, and for that I am grateful. But now that he’s done his part, it’s time for all Americans to decide how to respond to his revelations. That is to say, it is no longer his story. It is ours.
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Hedges: The Death of Truth
The global assault on Wikileaks is part of the terrifying metamorphosis of the “war on terror” into a wider war on civil liberties — a hunt not for actual terrorists, but for all those with the ability to expose the mounting crimes of the power elite.
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Internet Rights — and America's Lack Therof
Internet freedom is an illusion in the U.S.
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The Latest Victims of Justice Department Overreach
Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer was sentenced Monday to 3.5 years in prison for revealing to the media that AT&T had configured its servers to allow access to iPad owners’ unsecured email addresses.
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'Aaron's Law' Proposes Reining in Federal Anti-Hacking Statute
Amendments being proposed to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act will limit the definition of unauthorized access to make a clear distinction between criminal hacking activity and simply acts that exceed authorized access on a minor level.
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A Martyr in the Fight for Free Online Access to Research
In death, Aaron Swartz has become a political martyr for the cause he championed in life: making scientific and scholarly research freely available.
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Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience or Cyber Crime?
As Aaron Swartz’s and other “hacktivist” cases demonstrate, you don’t have to be a hacker to be viewed as one under federal law.
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Aaron Swartz and the New Communists
Aaron Swartz was not pursued by MIT, the university from which he supposedly "stole," nor by JSTOR, the organization whose files he supposedly "stole." He was pursued by the federal government "because they needed to make an example."
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The Death of Aaron Swartz and the New Hacker Crackdown
The first hacker crackdown shook the early internet to its core and helped mobilize political geeks. Today we're in the midst of a new crackdown.
