but mit was not as clear. the federal government's -- remember, there was the bradley manning and wikileaks issue going on the federal government thought it was really important to make an example. they brought this incredibly ridiculous prosecution that had multiple -- i think it was something like more than a dozen counts climbing a felony violations against aaron, threatening scores of years in prison. but it is not just the theoretical claims about what he might of thought, but the practical burden that for the last two years his wealth was bled dry as he had to negotiate to try to finally settle this matter because the government was not going to stop before he admitted he was a felon, which i think in a world where the architects of the financial crisis nine regularly at the white house, it is ridiculous to think aaron swartz was a felon. a >> what was the scene where he was arrested? he was riding his bicycle? >> yes. this is part of the incredibly ridiculous propaganda the government put out. they rele

detail about sort of the mit aspect of the story well aaron wasn't a student at mit but it was it was mit that was the prime reason that led to the federal trial against him we should mention on sunday the president of the massachusetts institute of technology did write a letter expressing his condolences and referred to aaron swartz as a gifted brilliant creative young man and mired by many now in the way the institution played a main role in his lawsuit is because according to prosecutors and according to the again swartz in two thousand and eleven he was arrested and charged with sneaking into mit's network closet and using the school's connection to download millions of academic and research files from j. store without paying for them and that's how mit is involved store according to reports didn't want to press any charges but mit did not come out publicly to defend swartz in any case or to prevent this prosecution from going forward in the aftermath of his suicide and his friends and families saying that this prosecution in this case contributed to his suicide mit is now launchi

mit call that trespassing.here was selectivity -- that was the activity in which they say he massively overstepped the line. >> we should say that jstor refused to endorse any prosecution of aaron swartz. they said aaron returned the data he had in his possession and was settled in the crimes we have had against him in june 2011. earlier this week, before aaron died, they announced, jstor announced that 1200 journals from its archives had been open for limited reading by the public. taren stinebrickner-kauffman, back's partner, just flew from chicago where she attended aaron's funeral, can you talk about the broader issues here? >> i think there are a couple of broader issues that aaron's senseless prosecution and that highlights. one is the freedom of information issue and open access issue, as the clip you played says, the scientific legacy of academics and researchers from over the centuries often most of it is funded in one way or another by taxpayers, by the government ought to be available to everyone in

mit would no cooperate. >> jstor not only pressed charges.l charge pending against aaron. hey, let's it go. now professor are releasing those papers on their own. he was not trying to make a profit. >> mit refused to drop the case. when you think about it, all he wanted access to were scholarly articles and journals that he found interesting. when you really think about it, the reason why a lot of these scholars have decided to release that information free to the public is a lot of these studies are funded by the u.s. government meaning tax dollars. why should we sign up for an expensive archive to get access to this research. >> let's say at the very worst he did what it is said that did he. that is not even a deal at is six months in prison and 13 felonies. when you turn that down, that is saying a lot about this guy. then they want to go after 35 years. >> they wanted to make an example out of him. he was known as part of the activist community and i think federal prosecutors wanted to make an example out of him. it's really a shame when

back in two thousand and eleven aaron snuck into a utility closet on mit's campus plugged a computer into the network and began downloading millions of academic journals that were stored behind it a wall belonging to the store. aaron likely knew this was illegal although the expert witness for his defense alex stamos argued that aaron's actions may not have been criminal after all regardless aaron was an activist who was willing to challenge the status quo of corporate war welfare copyright laws that restrict the flow of free flow of information from academic journals to movies and music on the internet and he was willing to blur the lines of legality in this effort in fact aaron was acting in the spirit of thomas jefferson who himself was not too keen on the idea of heavy handed patents on ideas and intellectual property as he wrote nine hundred thirteen that ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction of man and improvement of his condition seems to have been peculiar and benevolently designed by nature when she made them like

mit, after aaron's death, said that they will investigate how they dealt with him. for over a decade, aaron swartz was a celebrity computer programmer and cyber activist. at age 14 he could develop the really simple syndication, the key component of much of the web's entire publishing infrastructure. by the time he was 19 he co- founded a company that would merge with reddit. he also built the online architecture for the open library. today, we are going to continue looking at when the activism by looking at another one of the world's best known cyber activists, julian assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website wikileaks. in november, he spoke to democracy now! from inside the ecuadorean embassy where he had been holed up for nearly six months. we spoke about the united states targeting of wikileaks, of his new book. i interviewed julian assange. we began by asking him about the european commission decision that the credit card company be said did not break the european union's antitrust rule by blocking donations to wikileaks. >> the decision is disgraceful

why it's targeted it and sought to release their articles for free which he did by hacking into an mit computer wiring closet but he never distributed the articles nor did intend to profit from them whatsoever in fact once he was arrested he returned everything he downloaded invalid never to use them they alleged victim in that case j.-star even told the federal government that they didn't want to see him prosecuted. the department of justice came down hard filing charges against aaron for multiple felonies some of the computer fraud and abuse act which carried decades in prison and about a million dollars in fines all to set an example for internet activists worldwide aaron had no mal intent that he knew that he just become another casualty in the two tiered justice system one in which the odds were heavily stacked against him and when faced with those odds and chose death over life in prison but his memory and accomplishments will forever live on. the death of aaron swartz sent shock waves around the internet community and today in chicago his friends and families laid him to rest wh

instead of mit romney or biden, they're taking nfl out of context. >> how are you feeling? >> egg roll. i wish i had a breeze running down my leg. i'd kill for a cookie. >> i want it now. i want kate now. i want it now. >> i found fido. hey, i found fido. i found fido, you guys. >> ham bone? >> love to get you a mai tai. is that a bother? >> what's wrong with him? >> dare you to spit in that guy's drink. >> i went out with a girl this weekend. we just kept having a ball. i come over to hang out after the game and it's just -- the floors are just bean bags. so i'm a jerk. you have floor bags? you're not living in southeast asia. >> he said, dude, your cat is just pregnant. sid okay, so i won't go and kick her. >> finger time. >> the beanbags. >> that is too good. >> ham bone. anyway, let's move to capitol hill. >> all right. let's get some politics. >> obviously. >> it will not be as funny, i guarantee you that. this is something that doesn't really surprise me. turns out downloading pirated tv shows and movies isn't just for college kids. it's apparently happening on capito

definitely nothing to take lightly manny let's talk about anonymous of course anonymous goes on the mit web site causes the mischief there you know doing some different things reactionary and that could you speak to what they've been doing and are planning to do you sure that's actually a very important point here i don't know if you heard rumors were circulating in the internet that the westboro baptist church would be protesting outside of outside of this funeral in the same way that they do for a lot of high profile funerals around the country at the end of the day i guess it was a little bit too cold for them to show up but i think that's for the best at the same time back to your question about anonymous not only how they've been doing this sort of hacking on an mit online i did hear that report as well as a sort of tribute for erin but the amount of organization that they put into kind of rallying people here in chicago to come out and counter protests in the event that the westboro baptist church did come out so to that end i think anonymous did play a significant role and i anti

to this the official mit website was hacked and defaced by anonymous very recently that's the activist group we can extend do you support those sort of tactics. i mean if. i don't know if i definitely want to say that i support or do not support but i will say that i recognize why they are doing this i mean they believe that the government was wrong to go after schwartz in the way that the government did and so that is why i might use basing this sort of action kevin just on a journalist and author thank you very much indeed for joining us live from washington d.c. . the right to a preemptive nuclear strike against china is not part of us nor thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how america could strike at a network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's only cost and its or of japan based news website james coleman however suggests altering motives. i don't think that we have to look at this contest bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this this point but i think it has

certainly are some that are questioning the severity of frankly redistributing academic papers from mit but i must ask you because because it is situations in one way or another do you have the right to protect their own intellectual property so i mean some would say that activists in some way or another have to accept the punishment they face or do you disagree well i think the system brought in this case whenever it comes to internet freedom whenever it comes to copyright infringement then other senators other people in the house of representatives in the united states on the same side there is no differences. there they are from same side as hollywood does they are actually fighting for hollywood and making the last of them it's sometimes it's ridiculous what they what they are thinking what would be a good law because these people are making laws they should have should always think what they are but the laws actually have an effect on society and some times the effect is just that they're completely innocent people have to pay a lot of fine or go into jail because they are making i

mit announced today he is probing an internal launch into their role in schwartz death. thousands of supporters have taken to the social networking site to provide links to academic papers regardless of whether they have permission. the protests is meant to be a virtual representation of schwartz beliefs and the availability and access of all information. >>> a recent study draws a connection between spanking young children and their aggressive a few years laterment researchers from the university of wisconsin found spanking kids under the age of one led to aggressive behavior by age three. and depression and anxiety by age 5. the studies author says this is the first time there's been evidence found on all of those behaviers. research found most parents think kids still need a spanking at least once in a while. >>> a hazardous material crew briefly shut down part of a san jose hotel after guests complained of a chemical odor. 15 guests were sickened with throat and eye irritation. no one was hospitalized and there's still no word on what chemical was leaking there. >>>

those people cannot leave mit and start a business in the united states if they were u.s. citizens they could this is the best and the brightest. you know that's great tom you know i've spoken on your program previously about what illegals have cost us by filing under this section one fifty two we're spending about twenty billion dollars a year because right now on tax code any legal alien who gets a taxpayer identification number and files a tax return to claim dependence in mexico we're being raked over the coals and this is going to do nothing for creating jobs i wish the president would take his head out of the clouds and come down and give a damn about the american david are you serious that if somebody declare declared a dependent in mexico and they get audited by the i.r.s. the i.r.s. with. section one fifty two of the internal revenue code allows the deduction of dependents in the two contiguous nations mexico and canada however in mexico you don't have to proffer the same documentation because the theory is many of these families living with rural areas and they m

and it's the right price i would happily buy into a percentage of these mit kids salaries writer cornell kids yeah that's interesting but then does that mean that if you are going into say being an engineer you're likely to get a loan but if you want to go to school for theater you're maybe going to be out of luck i wouldn't refine it that much. i would like to bury that because for one thing kids change too i was a buyer major i was going to going to go to med school or vet school and ended up going into chemistry and so what they say freshman year is meaningless guess. what i'd like to see is the trench across all of all of the school what i would do is it would force schools to provide a better product to ride students who are more quipped to succeed and actually get jobs at night like the school goes under yeah yeah well yeah i guess you could argue that some universities may be too big to fail because they're not held to standards of any kind of company long as the kids keep borrowing the same business and that brings me to another of your analyses which when you look at the earning

>> guest: he was a professor at mit who came up with the idea of the daily me. the idea of the daily me is that we will all get newspapers conditioned to what we care about because we will make the decisions about what is on paper. the difference between that and the daily you is the notion that a lot of what goes on under the hood of the web is not conditioned by us, it's created as a result of a whole lot of activities by marketers that we don't even see or know about. and relating to a transformation in advertising that almost anyone except people in the advertising industry doesn't know about. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: in the last 20 years, advertising has changed drastically with the rise of cable and then the internet. originally, advertising was making an ad, a commercial and then putting on just a few very popular media; newspapers, radio, magazines. with the rise of cable, all of a sudden you had hundreds of channels, and then with the internet it's infinite. but more so you have tingal stuff, and it -- digital stuff, and it becomes intera

website and schwartz's family blames both mit and prosecutors saying i'm quoting here, aaron's deathmply a personal tragedy, it's a product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. now you have the president of mit saying it planned to actually look into this whole thing, saying it pains him to believe the school played a part in aaron's death. they want a full review of how the school played a role in this, and the company that gets paid to store all of these academic journals, even they have come out saying that this was an overzealous prosecution. the u.s. attorney's office in boston has obviously, because he died, dropped the charges, but not yet commented on the fury that this prosecution has raised. megyn. >> megyn: all right. trace, thanks. well, more moments on our breaking news that the president will be joined tomorrow by children from around the country who the white house says wrote letters to president obama in the wake of the newtown tragedy, expressing their concern about gun violence and school safety along with their parents, h

i had my eye a good bit beyond that before i went to mit.i was always looking ahead into the future. so i went to mit, and i communicated some with ed white after i made the smartest decision in my life, which was to take what i knew how to do, which is intersect airplanes and decide that this is 1960. that one of these days -- nobody had put anyone in orbit yet -- but one of these days we are going to need to join up with somebody who is in orbit in space, and we are going to have to close and rendezvous with them. so pursuing that has had a tremendous influence on my life. up to now. and there was an extremely wise decision to become a seat of the pants tied of rendezvoused person with a background at mit, which is usually pretty nerdy. we had computers them, but we also had adding machines familiar with rules. >> was anybody brave enough to call you a nerd back then, not to your face probably. >> i don't think there was such a thing as a nerd. [laughter] they would have called me probably ed white had gone on to michigan, and from there w

from mit. he has done postgraduate work at harvard and caltech. tim tooten, wbal tv-11 news. >> coming up, another staff choice on capitol hill. >> president obama's nomination for treasury secretary. >> different, emotional approaches to saturday's showdown. later in sports. >> rain on the horizon. perhaps as early as friday afternoon. we will see how the weekend shapes up. >> just 11 days before his second inauguration, president obama makes another cabinet change. today the president nominated his chief of staff jack lew as the treasury secretary. president obama says that his judgment can be trusted and he can work with both parties. that is the fourth major staffing change made by the president. analysts say he may face tough criticism but is expected to be confirmed. >> now your insta-weather plus 11 forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> 12 degrees above average for this 10th day of january. it will be warmer than that this weekend. hard to believe. no records in site. at least nothing we can see. the records are well up in th

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you don't have shysters, but stanford, mit, they are putting the best professors in the world. business model, takes a few thousand people a year at whatever it is, $50,000 or $75,000, but they could sell it at $10,000 to 100,000 people around the world. i mean, that's what connectivity will do. let the marketplace decide whether you want to hire someone who passed that certificate or spent four years getting socialize on campus, you know? gerri: thank you for copping on, "entering the shift age," interesting topic, i agree with you completely, a bubble waiting to burst. thank you. >> well, glad -- thank you for having me, thank you, appreciate it. gerri: all right. a fox business alert. stocks closed lower today, but still a record breaking january. the s&p gained more than 5% this month, logging the best january, get this, since 1997. the dow, despite falling 50 points today, up 6% this month, making it the best january since 1994. all right. listen to this. the stock market, hey, it's nearing all highs issue but if you are still skeptical about getting back into equities, th

slammed in to it and actually slammed into it hard, because my longest teaching appointment was at mit which is almost like the modern and the future in a microcosm. >> won way to understand this book and other certainly myself is the rubbing together of these two major alternatives, a traditional outlook and out of them were religious and a modern outlook in which secular and human and so on. >> where did you land in america at 17? >> islanded in missouri from which my father had gone to china, central methodist college, a small college and small town, but compared with china was the big apple bright lights big time and it turned me around. i had had only one male american role model my father, so i grew up thinking the missionaries were what american boys grew up to be, so i thought i was coming over here only to get my credentials and go back, but i hadn't remembering dealt with the missouri and i wasn't going to go back to the back waters of rural china so i made it that the west would be my home. >> and turned into a missionary of another type, perhaps. >> very true, in darkest af

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he has a degree from mit and we are excited and honored to welcome him on our team. of course -- will continue to remain in our office as many of you know she started as my campaign manager and she has been an astounding team member and supporter working on many community initiatives. i want to announce that and welcome -- >> supervisor yee, you asked to be re referred. >> supervisor yee: i was remiss not to mention my staff members last weekend; even this week. one of them as you heard would be matias. i am fortunate to have three aides that are well seasoned and understand all of things that i don't understand. the other one would be olivia scanlan (sounds like) who i'm sure most of you know she is. she is a retainer from supervisor -- of eight years, a wealth of knowledge of city hall in district 7. the third person would be esther lee, variety of experiences including four years with senator -- as an aide. we have a well-rounded team to ensure the things that i want to accomplish in the next four years. >> mr. president nor the names on the roster. >> thank you c

he has a degree from mit and we are excited and honored to welcome him on our team. of course -- will continue to remain in our office as many of you know she started as my campaign manager and she has been an astounding team member and supporter working on many community initiatives. i want to announce that and welcome -- >> supervisor yee, you asked to be re referred. >> supervisor yee: i was remiss not to mention my staff members last weekend; even this week. one of them as you heard would be matias. i am fortunate to have three aides that are well seasoned and understand all of things that i don't understand. the other one would be olivia scanlan

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