Seeing Aaron made to stand shoeless, handcuffed to a metal bar for over 23 minutes as armed men rifled through his belongings and occasionally asked him questions, I can't help but think this process is designed to be demeaning. This is no way to treat someone who's not been found guilty of committing any crime. And I'm sure this wasn't the worst of it.<p>If our criminal justice system had more concern for the dignity of the people that went through it, perhaps we'd see less tragedies like Aaron's.
I'm very curious why they feel the need to redact the location of MIT's Office of General Counsel (see MIT Communications with US Attorney(1) [0]). That information is freely available on the OGC's website [1].<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1355271-mit-communications-with-us-attorney-1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1355271-mit-communic...</a>
[1]: <a href="http://ogc.mit.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://ogc.mit.edu/</a>
Pardon my laziness: is there anything to be seen from these documents/media that we didn't know before? Anything surprising/interesting? If so, a quick summary and/or a link would be appreciated.
Can I do this for myself? I mean can I submit a FOIA to see documents that fed gov has on me?
Not that I am an important person, but I mean in general, what does it take?
In case it's not loading for you, it looks like there's a mirror in the CoralCDN: <a href="http://swartzfiles.com.nyud.net/" rel="nofollow">http://swartzfiles.com.nyud.net/</a>
For those wishing to catch up on the story, I made an archive of Swartz news: <a href="http://newslines.org/aaron-swartz/" rel="nofollow">http://newslines.org/aaron-swartz/</a>
Did this just go up? It seems to be going down intermittently. Edit: The "zip file" link doesn't work now, although it seemed to before. Maybe they took it down to save bandwidth?