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I'd like , please ten years after youtube A show of leadership from MIT likely would have had broad ramifications. The computer-crimes law that allowed prosecutors to threaten Swartz with 35 years in prison is widely perceived as outdated and unduly harsh. Laws that protect against truly malicious hacking, while protecting innovation and free inquiry, are in both the national interest and in MIT’s. Yet the institute, unlike Harvard, Stanford, and other top universities, has kept a low profile on the very public-policy questions that its scholars often understand best — a tendency the Abelson report asks the community to reconsider. MIT officials acted in good faith. But they missed a chance to help Swartz — and to make a larger mark in a vital national debate.

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