Editing Hal Abelson (section)

===Aaron Swartz investigation===
{{main|Aaron Swartz}}
In January 2013, [[open access]] activist [[Aaron Swartz]] died by suicide. He had been arrested near MIT and was facing up to 35 years imprisonment for the alleged crime of downloading ''Journal Storage'' ([[JSTOR]]) articles through MIT's ''open access'' campus network.<ref name="SwartzAaronPR">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR.html
 |title=Alleged Hacker Charged with Stealing Over Four Million Documents from MIT Network
 |author=<!--Unstated, staff writer-->
 |date=July 19, 2011
 |website=The United States Attorney's Office: District of Massachusetts
 |publisher=US Department of Justice
 |access-date=September 7, 2019
 |url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526080523/http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR.html
 |archive-date=May 26, 2012
}}</ref>

In response, MIT appointed professor Hal Abelson to lead an internal investigation of the school's choices and role in the prosecution of [[Aaron Swartz]] by the FBI.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/aaron-swartz-mit_n_2480627.html |date=January 15, 2013 |access-date=January 16, 2013 |title=Aaron Swartz Case 'Snowballed Out of MIT's Hands,' Source Says |last=Smith |first=Gerry |publisher=Huffington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/letter-on-death-of-aaron-swartz.html |date=January 15, 2013 |access-date=January 16, 2013 |title=President Reif writes to MIT community regarding Aaron Swartz,' Source Says |last=Smith |first=Gerry |publisher=MIT News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/anonymous-hacks-mit-sites-to-post-aaron-swartz-tribute-call-to-arms/2013/01/14/ff6f706c-5e44-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_print.html |date=January 15, 2013 |access-date=January 16, 2013 |title=Anonymous hacks MIT sites to post Aaron Swartz tribute, call to arms' Source Says |last=Smith |first=Gerry |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> The report was delivered on July 26, 2013. It concluded that MIT did nothing wrong legally, but recommended that MIT consider changing some of its internal policies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://swartz-report.mit.edu/docs/report-to-the-president.pdf |title=Report to the President: MIT and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz |last=Abelson |first=Hal |website=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |date=July 26, 2013 |access-date=2013-08-02}}</ref>