{"id":493,"date":"2013-01-29T05:21:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryastrophysics.wordpress.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2013-01-29T05:21:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T05:21:22","slug":"aaron-swartz-suicide-has-u-s-lawmakers-scrutinizing-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Swartz suicide has U.S. lawmakers scrutinizing prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that&#8217;s morphed into a posthumous cause celebre.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide in New York on Jan. 11 as a trial loomed involving charges that he had allegedly illegally hacked into a network at <a title=\"Massachusetts Institute of Technology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/science-technology\/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-OREDU000047.topic\">MIT<\/a> to download scholarly articles hidden behind an expensive subscription paywall. He had previously said the knowledge belonged to the world.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation\/nationnow\/la-na-nn-aaron-swartz-congressional-scrutiny-20130118,0,640020.story\">Source:\u00a0 Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that&#8217;s morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide in New York on Jan. 11 as a trial loomed involving charges that he had allegedly illegally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}