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January 14, 2013 04:38 am GMT

MITs President Orders Internal Investigation Into Its Handling Of Aaron Swartzs Case

s6_r_gAfter the news about Interent activist Aaron Schwartz's suicide on Friday started to spread across the Internet, many - including Schwartz's family - at least partly blamed the way MIT handled his case after the school detected his attempts to download millions of articles from JSTOR in 2011 for his death. MIT president L. Rafael Reif today announced that he has asked Professor Hal Abelson, "to lead a thorough analysis of MIT's involvement from the time that we first perceived unusual activity on our network in fall 2010 up to the present."

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