Chelsea Manning Archivist Excludes Hacktivist Jailed By Carmen Ortiz From Aaron Swartz Day (huffingtonpost.com)

New submitter Danngggg writes: As you may recall from Slashdot last year, alleged Anonymous hacktivist Martin Gottesfeld has been imprisoned without bail since federal agents arrested him on board a Disney Cruise ship in February of 2016 to face hacking charges brought by controversial former U.S. attorney Carmen Ortiz. Though he's the only activist after Aaron Swartz to face a felony CFAA indictment from Ortiz, apparently Aaron Swartz Day organizer and Chelsea Manning archivist Lisa Rein don't want to include Gottesfeld in the festivities this year. So, he has taken to Huffington Post to argue that his story should be told this November 4th and, perhaps with a sense of irony, to publish some potentially scandalous Signal messages allegedly sent by Rein to his wife revealing what seems to be disdain for hacking in general and Anonymous in particular. Indeed, Rein seems to borrow from the movie Mean Girls in her contemptuous rejection of Mrs. Gottesfeld's appeals on behalf of her embattled husband. What does the Slashdot crowd have to say about whether Gottesfeld's story belongs at Aaron Swartz Day as well as Rein's alleged attitude towards his significant other?

"One might think that my voice would be welcomed at Aaron Swartz Day given all that the late internet/freedom of information activist and I share in common," writes Gottesfeld. "For starters, we were both indicted under the same controversial federal law, the CFAA, by the same Boston U.S. Attorney's Office and indeed under the tenure of the same notorious U.S. Attorney, Carmen Ortiz. Both of us have been persecuted for doing the moral thing; Aaron for trying to make taxpayer-funded research available to the general public and me for stopping the torture of an innocent child."

Comments

Re:You Misspelled "Bradley"

[slashrio]

Bradley Manning was a hero, exposing the war crimes of the war criminals in Washington DC.
So yes, it matters what Chelsea thinks.
And your opinion is totally irrelevant.

Re:Who the hell are these people?

[schnell]

Here would be a good few places for a Slashdot "editor" to start:

• What is "Aaron Swartz Day?" I have heard of Aaron Swartz but I've never heard of his "day" before. What is it? I even clicked through to the website and still can't figure out what it is.
• What is a "Chelsea Manning Archivist?"
• Why do they have a vote on who is included in "Aaron Swartz Day?"
• I see who indicted him and that they are clearly "controversial" and "notorious," but why? What got him in trouble? Did he do the same thing as Chelsea Manning? Does it benefit the general public in the same way?
• Is this a big deal? Is somebody being excluded from a major event that has wide-ranging impacts or is this someone just wanting to glom onto an event celebrating someone else? Or is it even an event that anyone cares about?
• Can someone explain the "torture of an innocent child" thing? Did he actually use a computer to stop a child from being tortured? There's no context given here.
• "Mean Girls?" Why? What?
• Also, WHAAAAAAAAAT?

Re:You Misspelled "Bradley"

[ScentCone]

No, Manning wasn't a hero. He was a guy who said he was unhappy at his chosen career, and was in drama-queen mode. In order to scratch that drama itch, he casually spread around untold thousands of classified documents without any critical thought or any ethical attempt to point out any sort of incorrect behavior. He was simply dumping sensitive information for the sake of personal attention, and he didn't care or even know what he was dishing out. Moron, traitor, liar, etc ... not hero, at all.

Re:She's evil . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

Confirmation troll, a troll pretending to be an opposing viewpoint while actually emphasizing the main points troll #1 wants to make.

Reminds me of @TEN_GOP, a fake Russian troll group pretending to be the Tennessee GOP trying to divide Americans by polarizing them to the extremes. Comments from @TEN_GOP were often followed by counter comments that expressed disgust while actually saying pretty much the same stuff in a different way.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevincollier/americans-helped-spread-an-alleged-russian-gop-accounts?utm_term=.ad3vJ2pwO#.rpd37ZJ5v

Russia is a rogue state and needs regime change. Putin is out of control.

Re:You Misspelled "Bradley"

[slashrio]

Crime 1:
The US politicians had sent their army to Iraq based on a pack of lies, and they knew it.

Crime 2:
Shooting journalists at war time.

Crime 3:
Shooting at people helping the wounded.

Patriotic & Heroic:
Exposing crimes 2 & 3.

I Might've Cared

[RobotRunAmok]

...but the summary is incomprehensible.

Re:You Misspelled "Bradley"

[91degrees]

Wikileaks exposed the war crimes. Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning just leaked a load of information with no idea what was included.

I don't care what she thinks. Doing the right thing doesn't count for much if you do it my accident.