Lawrence Lessig Responds to Aaron Swartzs Prosecutor

Internet guru and academic Lawrence Lessig wrote a new blog post, sharing his feelings a week after Aaron Swartz's death and addressing Swartz's prosecutor's statement.

"Why was he being charged with 13 felonies?" Lessig asked.

In an emotional post, Lessig confesses that he hasn't slept since finding out about his friend's death. "I have been frantically trying to explain, to connect, and to make sense of all of this," he wrote. And even though there have been smiles in the midst of these sad times, that hasn't been enough.

"But these smiles have been drowned by endless sadness, and even greater disappointment -- and none more pronounced than the utterly profound disappointment in…
Continue reading...

More About: Aaron-Swartz, Lawrence Lessig