Anonymous Hijacks Federal Website Over Aaron Swartz Suicide

I may get flamed for asking this, but am I the only one that thinks the Swartz suicide has been over-reacted to by HN and the tech community at large? In no way to I mean to be disrespectful or callous, but it seems that there is way too much coverage of his suicide.

I really think for once Anonymous guys should shut up and find another <i>cause</i> to <i>defend</i>, because If they wanted to harm the currently insightful ongoing debate on the handling of the Aaron Swartz's case they wouldn't do otherwise. And btw the actions of Aaron Swartz were not even remotely comparable with the reckless behavior of Anonymous. All this can do is make Aaron Swartz guilty by association in the mind of the average person when she hear about the actions of Anonymous. It doesn't serve any meaningful purpose.

Anonymous needs to get a better understanding of the effects of their actions. I'm all for taking illegal but morally acceptable actions on a calculated and reasonable basis. Using vigilante website-takeovers as a way to call for a more fair justice system is not reasonable. A pseudo-criminal, intellectually unsophisticated hacking collective's endorsement does not do justice to the reality that Aaron was hounded despite lacking any substantial wrongdoing, as acknowledged by JSTOR's lawyers.

Mr. Swartz was a canary in our coal mine. When tyranny encouraged his death we all became more acutely aware of it, yet another thing we owe him gratitude for no matter how much we wish he'd toughed it out so we could crack a beer with him. For very good reasons Anonymous has done something I doubt myself or most of you would have the courage to undertake and I am grateful to them. Blank is Beautiful!

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Hijacking a website is so 1990s. Hack a website and then give me all the logins. That would be kind of interesting.