supporters say that aaron schwartz was the victim of an overzealous prosecutor. was he? there's a debate ahead. >> the tech world was rocked last week by news of the suicide of 26-year-old internet activist aaron schwartz, the computer programmer and free information advocate was facing up to 35 years in prison if convicted on federal charges of computer hacking and wire fraud over the illicit downloading of million academic and subscription data base and charges his family and supporters say the amount of prosecutorial overreach contributed to schwartz's decision to take his own life. the u.s. attorney is pushing back against the claims saying her office acted fairly and responsibly, and offered schwartz a six month prison sentence in exchange for guilty plea to 13 felony counts. a deal schwartz rejected. wall street journal editorial board member has been following the story and joins us now. joe, who was aaron schwartz and why was it it a big deal. >> he's an important figure in the digital world in the sense he's an open source activist. he advocates an ideology says

was aaron schwartz a victim of government intimidation and a run away prosecutor. >> while there's noaw or set of laws that can prevent every sinceless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent he every tragedy, every act of evil, if there's even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there's even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try it. >> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i'm paul gigot, that was president obama rolling out the plan to curb gun violence and the president outlined 23 executive actions, including more steps to make more federal data available from background checks and increased access to mental health services and he called on congress to reinstate the federal assault weapons ban and prohibit high capacity gun magazines that can hold more than ten rounds. so, what's likely to get passed and what difference will it make? let's ask wall street journal columnist and political he editor and washington columnist kim strassel. >> has a hypothetical, let's assume that everything the president is pr

professor aaron schwartz. a professor of law and the director of the center for ethics at harvard university. he is joining us tonight from austin, texas. larry, i would like to welcome you back inside "the war room." >> it's great to be back. >> jennifer: yeah, you knew aaron for 12 years, i'm told and as his mentor and friend -- i'll get to the legal stuff -- but i'm curious what you would like people to remember about him. >> well, i really think of him as the mentor and me as the mentoree. he was around 14 when i first met him, and every single stage of his life, he was pushing people to -- to try to build something that was -- that fit the ideas that he had about what the internet could be, what we could be as a society. by then of his life it wasn't so much internet activism as social act -- activism he got me to change a number of things i was working on because of piercing questions we would push and the standard he held us all too. >> jennifer: let me get to the specifics of this case where he was dow

. >> let's talk a little more about aaron schwartz.ting here reporting his death, which was a suicide, right? why do they blame the government? because he started or at least was one of the people who started rss, which was a big website, and reddit, which is huge, reddit.com. >> aaron schwartz, a huge internet activist. when he committed suicide two weeks ago, that is what anonymous has said today was basically the final straw, the tipping point that caused them to take the action they did do. schwartz committed suicide, and his family said it was because he was faced with the pressure of facing federal computer fraud charges, charges that could have sent a 20-something to jail for upwards of 35 years. his family said that drove him to suicide, but it's hard to say exactly if what anonymous said a line was crossed because they believe a government was too harshly cracking down on his accessing of government information, if that's something that really was too harsh and led to this result. >> good reporting. thank you, emily schmidt. a

aaron schwartz points the finger at. u.s. prosecutors driving their son to suicide. high hopes in paris for a swift military campaign in mali with american british. all amid criticism of french realism. and belfast is on edge flag related riots majority rally for. loyalist protests we go and explore the all sides. thank you so much for joining us here and i'm sure with worldwide news from moscow . the family of web information aaron schwartz says that he may have been driven to suicide by the ferocious prosecution process against him aged just twenty six the internet crusader facing decades in jail for downloading millions of academic papers that he should be believed should be made available to everybody in the public because on his marina reports the federal prosecution. he was a computer prodigy an online activists co-founder of the social news website reddit and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month that beginning will nev

the suicide of aaron schwartz has created a crisis of conscience for the internet age. he hanged himself on friday just months before he was set to be tried for illegally downloading thousands of academic articles and hacking in to m.i.t.'s computer network. the u.s. attorney pursued the case relentlessly and as of this morning an online petition asking president obama to remove her from her post had 11,000 signatures. a new website called jet lag roaster.com can help you avoid that dreaded hangover that comes with crossing time zones by creating a custom sleep schedule to match your itinerary. creators of south park is launching a $300 million production will back a big screen version of their hit broadway show "book of mormon." all eyes on the motor world as the media gets a sneak peek at the hottest wheels rolling off the line at the detroit auto show. jay gray is there to give us a glimpse of what's happening there. jay, you got the good assignment, i must say. >> reporter: richard, you're right. surround by some incredible cars including yours. everybody is thankfu

in this statement, they mention aaron schwartz. i want to read a section of that statement. they say with aaron's death, we can no longer wait. the time has come to show the united states department of justice and its affiliates the true meaning of infiltration. the time has come to give this system a taste of its own medicine. the time has come for them to feel the helplessness and fear that comes with being forced into a game where the odds are stacked against them. >> certainly speaks a lot to how they felt about the case with aaron schwartz. what about these warheads? they each have the name of a supreme court justice. what are these about? >> we tried to look into that a little more. details given on this statement by anonymous are very vague. they don't go into detail about the extent of damage these virtual warheads will cause. what we do know, though, is that they're asking syndicates of anonymous to download these files and be ready when they say go. they're calling this operation last resort. it's a very ominous warning, saying it's no holds bar against the u.s. go

. >> friends will gather in illinois to aaron schwartz. he committed suicide in new york. his death comes in the midst of a legal battle over hacking allegations. they plan to picket outside his service and their group was seen last month. people are now remembering schwartz for his legacy. >> all of these people are really just struck by how at 26 he had managed to complete so many lifetimes worth of work. >> the san francisco community is planning on holding a ceremony in his honor. >>> there is a connection between sugary drinks and america's obesity epidemic. >>> coca-cola launched a two minute ad which is launching on several networks. >> we are asking people to come together on something that concerns all of us, obesity... >> that was it right there. they are asking people to consider low calorie options. critics open they will be able to see through the marketing. >> what would you think if phillip morris said we should all get together and fight against lung cancer. it would be hip critical. >> it says the campaign is designed to help educate consumers. >> 455 am i

they're saying that high-profile hackers like aaron schwartz are unfairly targeted with draconian charges and overzealous charges by the u.s. department of justice, essentially, miguel, they're looking for a ref formation in the legal proceedings and the charges that come forward against high-profile hackers. they go on to say in this statement this is not anything up for negotiation. this is an ultimatum. they want the reform now or they'll continue on with this operation last resort they're calling it. they said they have virtual warheads at the ready and syndicates of anonymous around the world ready to launch these virtual warheads against government websites. >> the government does so much to keep and spends so much to keep this from happening. has the commission of recovery controlled its website at the moment? >> good question. it's gone up and down all day. just a short time ago i was on the ussc.gov website and it seemed to be back to normal except on the lower right-hand corner it had a virus-looking chat message board that didn't seem to be there before the this hacking attempt

. >>> the lawyer for internet pioneer aaron schwartz, the young programmer who took his own life rather than spend time in prison for hacking says this morning the prosecution was far too rough on his client. scott mcgrew, we were talking about the story before the show, a sad story all the way around. >> it is. schwartz took his own life over the weekend, marla. his lawyer, elliot peters told the "huffington post" this morning prosecutors were after publicity and newspaper headlines. congresswoman z ovrnlthse laugh man says it's time to update the hacking laws. some believe those laws were taken advantage of for downloading academic papers without per migsz. she proposed the idea to change the law on read it, the internet forum schwartz faced. originally he faced more than 30 years in jail, though it was reduced to a plea deal offer. the prosecutors including u.s. attorney carmen ortiz have become targets of criticism, so much so her husband, ortiz's husband, an ibm executive went to twitter criticizing the schwartz family on the day of the young man's funeral saying, quote, truly in t

the hack is revenge for the death of aaron schwartz. they're calling for changes to be made to the u.s. justice system. schwartz was an internet activist who committed suicide two months ago. he helped create the site read it. he was arrested for illegally downloading millions of academic articles. >>> the obama administration is kicking off its campaign for gun safety. the president's organizing for action e-mailed supporters asking them to call their congressman about the issue. but democrats may stand in the way. senators up for re-election in 2014 in alaska, arkansas and montana have all expressed uncertainty about the proposals. >>> snail mail is going to cost you a little bit more starting tomorrow. postal service is raising the cost of a first class stamp to 46 cents. other shipping prices are also going up by 4%. the postal service is trying to make up for millions in lost revenue thanks to e-mail and other technology. >>> still ahead, the nats hold a presidential news conference. we're going to tell you the new commander in chi

and you know the white house was supporting sorba and only when the masses came together and aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped soap and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there is no reasonable. cause behind going after a young genius like that in the fashion they did it's political because the white house wanted so but they promised it to hollywood and they failed and they couldn't go ahead because the white house was afraid if they keep pushing hard and they keep pushing it forward that the people who oppose it are not going to vote for obama in the reelection campaign you see so it's all a game to them really and we are all the little puppets that they think they can kick around so we need to organize then we need to needs to be a movement that identifies these things and fights that not was shutting down websites but with real protest and especially most importantly don't vote for the guys that are against internet freedom anyone who voted for sopa you should have a close look at that guy do i want to

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. >> reporter: federal prosecutors were adamant that aaron schwartz admit he broke into mit hacked intork and downloaded nearly 5 million academic journals that in fact with copyrighted and adamant that he go to prison. schwartz's lawyers tried to cut a plea deal in the fall that got turned down and tried again last week and turned down again and two days later aaron schwartz hung himself inside his brooklyn home. and now some call extremely harsh prosecutions. and aaron schwartz helped found, that schwartz co-founded was with the searing comments, twitter, hacking group anonymous has hacked in and crashed the mit website and schwartz's family blames both mit and prosecutors saying i'm quoting here, aaron's death is not simply 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 tha

we'll get to the world update shortly here on r t for now though the lawyer who represented aaron schwartz says he warned us or thora to use his client was a suicide risk the twenty six year old activist faced decades behind bars over accusations here illegally downloaded academic documents for public use was his family who claim prosecutors were complicit in his death they've received tens of thousands of online messages in support. an i.t. entrepreneur and founder of a swedish pirate party has almost all information should be free to whoever ends up to her for you could easily say their friends is military secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because an invalid's privacy bo's national security but in terms of access to knowledge in public so public documents and records. certainly committed not no crime and that even goes with the law or so war the federal prosecution did was and threw the book at him in the way this had been obtained in terms of how he had walked into the technical university mit in the united states and set up a laptop to download these public d

the message says the suicide death of internet activist aaron schwartz prompted the threat. he was facing federal computer fraud charges and 35 years in jail. >>> live pictures for you this morning here. thousands of people expected to march on the national mall in washington later this morning to support tighter gun control measures, lawmakers, pastors, even some celebrities will be joined by victims of mass shootings, including residents from newtown, connecticut. they want congress to enforce a ban on military-style assault weapons and require universal background checks. >>> number three now, and this is pretty controversial. the milwaukee county sheriff here you see took out a radio ad that warns people to arm themselves. listen to sheriff david clark jr. >> with officers laid off and furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option. you can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back, but are you prepared? take a certified safety course so you can defend yourself until we get there. >> well, county officials

backer of internet freedom told us that the chase after swartz was nothing but politically based aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped sopa and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there is no reasonable. course behind it going after a young junior like that in the fashion they did it's political. well the interview with kim dotcom will be discussed here not see this will be thursday and i'll be martin's break in the set next though our special report mistress of the cave that starts in just a couple of minutes. wealthy british style. that's not on the title of five. markets why not i'm going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. is he. it's. just me. so the project is called the mistress of auto basically she looks like the silhouette of a woman on the wall. the legend speaks of a spirit in the cave called the mistress of a duck she lives there it's true she does exist and you'll get the

really take notice and to do something about this federal prosecutor which again i have to mention aaron schwartz his family was suggesting that it was the prosecutors should itself that had you know be placed a lot of the blame for aaron's death on this federal prosecutor so we'll just have to wait and see what the with the obama administration says but you know again speaking personally i am hopeful that president obama will will address this and that his administration takes this seriously because this is something that really needs to change in this country is the way that we look at these internet laws and this archaic way of analyzing the work that these activists doing and how the judicial system sort of persecutes it's almost a witch hunt against these online activists so i think that the more people know about this the more i want to see outrage that they'll be and will actually see something back from the administration that manny how can we how can we expect the person who kind of at the top of the justice system to really even take heed to this petition i mean he's overseen this this

services backer of internet freedom told us the chase going off to schwartz was nothing but politics aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped so when he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there is no reasonable. course behind it going after a young junior like that in the fashion they did it's political. well you can see the interview in full with kim dotcom that'll be here or not see this thursday i next though it's obvious autons breaking a set and i hope to see. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of each anything over six to two percent of those species are diagnosed with a specific problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it there were really good public health campaigns if people really focused on this problem you certainly should be able have a lot less h i feel a lot less human suffering. wealthy british style sun it's sometimes that's right on. targe

aaron schwartz i mean he's stopped sopa with his efforts he stops open he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there's no reasonable. cost behind the going after a young like that in the fashion that it's political. and you can see the full interview as it came dot com here when i see this day in i did most his breaking the set and all back with more stories for you right. well. out of sight but still on our minds radiation from the still exceeds the norm let's try to live smarter with smartphones you never know what some people are hiding things can be sure to prove down to the molecular level learned that what the doctor ordered is often based on secrets under our skin let the shine the light on the good in the world. we've got the future covered. thank. you. you're watching r.t. live from moscow they have been netanyahu has claimed a victory in the adjoining election but his party has still suffered a major setback winning fewer cs than expected are now netanyahu as they don't entire school persuading political forces to join him in

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the family of an internet activist to aaron schwartz accuses u.s. prosecutors of being complicit in his suicide after he faced decades behind bars for downloading academic documents for public use. fronts gives assurances its military operation against the mali islamists will be short lived and with warnings the country risks being bogged down in the conflict for far longer than expected. germany is set to persuade the greek opposition that austerity is what it needs that's critics say berlin's trying to please all sides in athens in a further attempt to push through its belt tightening medicine. thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. today i'm rory sushi with worldwide news live from moscow. the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and overreach that's how the family of the celebrated internet freedom activist erin swartz has described his recent suicide swartz face decades in prison after federal prosecutors allege he illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and planned to distribute them for free we have frequen

backer of internet freedom told us that the chase going after schwartz was nothing but politics aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped soap and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there's no reason a bore. course behind it going after a young like that in the fashion they did it's political. you can see the full interview with kim dotcom here on r.t. this thursday will be an abby martin's breaking the set for now i'm back with more stories after a very quick break. what mystery is hidden deep the nice. visitors the north welcome here. traps laid for intruders. and the supernatural cannot rise from nowhere. can a human be possessed by the water spirit. mistress of the cave on auntie. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today canada is considering extending its commitment to the fren

a three-way collision that some speculate led to a deepening depression for 26-year-old aaron schwartzder of reddit, a widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. president obama even used reddit to reach more than 5 million voters in his re-election campaign. most of them young people. in his short live, he became a folk hero, pushing to make web content free. but with prosecutors pressing serious charges, schwartz hanged himself friday in his brooklyn apartment. his lawyer said he doesn't know what put him over the edge, but the notion of prison time had him deeply worried. >> i know this case was weighing heavily on his mind and was a significant source of stress for him. >> the freedom to connect, like freedom of speech or like the freedom to murder. >> the case stemming from schwartz's passionate believe for a wide open, free internet. it dates back to july 2011 when he was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at m.i.t. the charges could have landed him in prison for up to 35 ye

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the relatives of internet activist and programmer aaron schwartz have said his death was a product of the failed u.s. justice system the twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit committed suicide facing decades in prison on hacking charges for allegedly stealing and publishing scientific documents online my colleague words to share i spoke to a representative of the pirate party from the berlin parliament fabio reinhardt who says the potential punishment for swartz was far too harsh but u.s. attorney's office pursued a spread of charges possibly leading to over thirty years in prison and a million dollar fine this alternately for downloading and redistributing mit academic papers do you think the punishment is justified no i definitely don't think this. on the internet or in swat was putting fires on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j.-star. where the fire came from and said they wanted to put the fire on the internet anyway and aaron swartz just did a perfectly good job doing it and he actually took a lot of effort f

aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped soap and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there's no reasonable. cause behind it going after a young like that in the fashion that it's political and you can see more of that interview as well as analysis in abbi margins breaking the set on thursday tomorrow and obviously andrew blake was the one who interviewed kim dotcom entrepreneur an internet freedom activist told him that he's ready to defend people's rights to free information. kim dotcom it's been over a year now almost a year exactly since kim dotcom this mansion in new zealand was raided by the authorities in conjunction with f.b.i. investigation and department of justice as a kinda operating the file storage site mega upload participate in this vast conspiracy that duped hollywood and the music and movie industry out of half a billion dollars by letting people share files freely over the internet now it's been a year now and kim dotcom has released a new project but he's saying that this whole new project he

aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped soap and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there's no reasonable. cost behind the going after a young like that in the fashion that it's political. and you can see the full interview with came dot com here on r.t. this thursday in the military is breaking the set that will be back with more stories for you after this short break. well to the. site but still on our minds radiation from the still exceeds the norm let's try to live smarter with smart phones you never know what some people are hiding things can't be sure to you probe down to the molecular level learn that what the doctor ordered is often based on secrets under our skin let it shine the light on a kid in the world. we've got the future. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so sleek you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. little mission. criti

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. >>> the family of aaron schwartz who relatives say committed suicide yesterday say the government is partly to blame for his death. schwartz came up with the computer code https when he was just 17. schwartz family say it is u.s. attorney in massachusetts and mit pursued exemptionally harsh charges that could have sent him to prison for 30 years which the family claims contributed to his suicide. 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 evide

internet freedom told us here about see the chase going after schwartz was nothing but political aaron schwartz i mean he stopped so power with his efforts he stopped and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there's no reasonable or. course behind going after a young jr like that in the fashion they did it's political you can see the full interview with kim dotcom here on r.t. this thursday that will be an abbey markings breaking the set. for now russia's foreign minister has held a major news conference looking back at the key international events and ups and downs of the past year sort of level of stress that the world is going through an unprecedented transition period with current events reshaping the geo political map r.t.g. a good place going off reports. one of the issues talked about said the very start of this conference was the conflict in syria and according to russia's foreign minister it's been going on for around two years now but there's still no evidence after it from the international community to get its sides to put their we