Unfortunately, this is just further proof that most of our celebrated
institutions, including prestigious palaces of “higher learning,” are
nothing more than apologists and gatekeepers for plutocratic power. It
was only a little less than two weeks ago that I wrote a story
celebrating how
a U.S. judge decided the government must release thousands of pages of secret service files on the late Aaron Swartz. Apparently, MIT isn’t comfortable in the many
skeletons they likely have in their closet coming out, so they have
moved to block the release.