[governance] Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Carmen Ortiz Admonished In 2004 For Aggressive Tactic

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, among a host of other fallacies, none of which are anywhere relevant to internet governance.  

Senator Issa was rather more circumspect about what he was quoted as saying about this, than you are, I'll say that for you.

--srs (iPad)

On 26-Mar-2013, at 11:54, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:

> The same aggression on intellectual property that "killed" Swartz is also responsible for the preventable morbidity and mortality of Africans living with HIV, countries prevented from using their legal rights to copy patents for public health reasons... and now the USG is taking on India for use of such legal rights, while pressuring Antigua not to act on an online gambling WTO judgement to cross retaliate on intellectual property rights in a case it won. So much for international law disciplining naked power politics. But like with the financial crisis, the US mantra is, don't interrupt me when I am making money?
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/25/aaron-swartz-carmen-ortiz_n_2951478.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business#slide=1983332 
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