What will it take to get MIT to stand up for its own students and researchers?
by Cory Doctorow from on (#XDAK)
In 2007, 19-year-old MIT Media Lab student named Star Simpson went to Boston's Logan Airport to meet a friend wearing a sweater she'd decorated with LEDs in the shape of a star; the Logan police responded (with machine guns) to a call about a "dark-skinned man" with a suspicious device. (more")