[peterwwillis]

Aaron Swartz was an incredibly talented and idealistic developer and entrepreneur who made a slew of positive changes the world over.

Barrett Brown is a narcissistic heroin addicted hack journalist whose biggest claims to fame are ones he creates or inflates through media-whoring and being a mouthpiece for Anonymous.

The thing they share in common is the FBI enjoys fucking them both over as hard as they can. I can't say that Barrett deserved it, but in no universe is he in the same category as Aaron.