Whilst this is a good thing, it's hardly civil disobedience.

What about a bit of uncivil disobedience instead?

#slacktivism

Yeah...brilliant...construct your massive anti-government surveillance openly on the very internet that the government is surveying you on...

Our moronic youth in rare form.

Dear Mr. Government Man...can you please add me to your list of people to focus on as I put my name on this list and ad my advertising banner to my web page...

Yeah...that's what we need...MORE banner ads!!! That'll help!

I'm shocked that there isn't a massive "Donate Here" button right at the top....

Who the hell is Aaron Swartz?

Anyway, a banner is really going to cause trouble. Slacktivism indeed.

sigh.

why do causes i like have such shitty pr

You complain? Try being a Republican.

right-wing in America in general has pr issues

If M. Swartz were alive today he would be thinking, "gee; I'm a douche bag. I should kill myself."

"You complain? Try being a Republican."

Yes, let's all join the party that got the whole surveillance state ball rolling in the first place - that'll show 'em!

It's a joke about causes with shitty PR, Tolstoy

@Jamie

I don't have anything specific against uncivil disobedience. We're talking about the group of people who are trying to block your access to health care, breathable air, education, and meaningful employment.

Personally, I feel that young people in Europe enjoy superior living standards precisely *because* they are so diligent about looting and burning shit when the powers that be attempt to marginalize them.

A word of caution though - just look at how bad blacks were treated after they famously rioted back during the heyday of the civil rights movement.
Oops, no wait. That's how they ended segregation and got the right to vote.

"*because* they are so diligent about looting and burning shit when the powers that be attempt to marginalize them. "

Or when the powers that be threaten to cut them off from the welfare state that is bankrupt due to being run on borrowed money.

Who did the state borrow that money from, dirge?

What state? Greece?

I don't really know Jamiet. I suppose the money was borrowed from China and now the Germans bailed them out with German tax revenue. But god forbid we "marginalize" the greek youth.

Several things about Aaron Swartz stick my craw.

1) Imagine you worked on a oil painting for three years and M. Swartz breaks into your house and takes it to give to throw in the street and he tells you, don't worry, I'm not a burglar, I'm a Hactivist. Then he rapes you. This is basically what he did to scholars and academics.

2) He should have had a better lawyer, but that's his problem, not mine.

3) So what if he help create reddit. If you ask me, that was a crime in and of itself.

4) Why do I have to see his picture everywhere just because he was a coward who couldn't live with himself. F him. If he wasn't good enough to go on living we should just forget about him. There are far too many people anyway.

no disrespect intended.

Ok, thanks for letting us know you have no understanding of the Swartz case.

Thanks for posting without saying anything and wasting out time @mendax

let me guess, you think it was all a big misunderstanding and Aaron Swartz is a sainted hackivist martyr

Aaron was much more than that. He was the author of many things we now use everyday, including the XML standard. We owe much to him for his work with the W3C.

@dirge

I get it dude. You don't like Aaron Swartz, Greece, activists, depressed people or socialists.

Is there anything that I missed?

dirge confirmed shitty human being

I never said I didn't like greece. I am just pointing out that country was using a doomed economic system of public welfare that was doomed to failure and i disagree with your action verb regarding youth being intentionally marginalized and their only way to better themselves is to throw petrol bomb and act like petulant children.

I love Greece.

Just not Greece's youth and the future of their country...

Spain is getting just as bad, though.

My most hated activists of all time:

1. Julian Assange
2. Saint Peter
3. William "Lord Haw-Haw" Joyce
4. Aaron Swartz

See? He's only number four. That's not so bad.

1. Julian Assange
2. Edward Snowden
3. Bradley Manning
4. Al Gore
5. Kevin Mitnick

1. Draugnar
2. Draugnar
3. Rush Limbaugh
4. Draugnar
5. Draugnar