Aaron Swartz's Estate Seeks Release of Documents

theodp writes "The Boston Globe reports that the estate of Aaron Swartz filed a motion in federal court in Boston Friday to allow the release of documents in the case that has generated national controversy over the U.S. attorney's aggressive pursuit of a stiff sentence. The Court filing (PDF) suggests that the U.S. attorney's office is still up for jerking Aaron around a little posthumously, seeking what his lawyers termed overbroad redactions, including names and titles that are already publicly known. Swartz's family also seeks the return of his seized property (PDF). Last week, Swartz's girlfriend accused MIT of dragging its feet on investigating his suicide. Meanwhile, Slate's Justin Peters asks if the Justice Department learned anything from the Aaron Swartz case, noting that Matthew Keys, who faces 25 years in prison for crimes that include aiding-and-abetting the display of humorously false content, could replace Swartz as the poster boy for prosecutorial overreach."

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[CRCulver]

For every Rosa Parks, there are thousands of raped victims that no one ever pays attention to. Without those thousands of victims, Rosa would have been just an uppity old N****r broad, who didn't know her place. BECAUSE OF those victims, Ms Rosa Parks earned her place in history.

Actually, Rosa Parks earned her place in history with the help of a concentrated effort by the NAACP in Montgomery to bust the city's discrimination. American school textbooks tend to present her as a solitary hero because of an institutionalized disapproval of collective civil rights struggles, but in fact she was working in tandem with a number of other activists. Herbert R. Kohl's Should We Burn Babar? , which critiques US elementary school teaching, dedicates an entire chapter to the Rosa Parks myth and reality.