What's /g/ opinion on Aaron Swartz?
>>55233619
Internet superhero.
((( Swartz )))
>>55233649
No.
His an immature gaylord.
>>55233662
One of the good defector Jews.
>>55233619
He seemed like a smart guy and then pussied out and killed himself. So, I think he's a faggot.
>>55233619
Mental case, killed himself rather than fight. Right fucking pussy.
>>55233619
Not a neet that actually did stuff to change the world or at least challenge it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQl1ZIudJ8
>>55233619
three years after his death and now you ask? Also that should be stupidly obvious, a /g/ hero. Shame he suffered from depression and couldn't best it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBGvm_sXMzQ
I just watched a documentary about him last night. I'm from a 3rd world country, was unaware of what was happening back then.
>>55233619
He was an hero. A real one. You guys realize how many cyber security bills have passed since he died? Almost every one. He had the connections to shut down the internet for like 2 days to stop one bill. Nothing but respect
o/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh2dFngFsg
>>55233619
So everyone says he was a pussy because he killed himself, is there a possibility the guy was murdered for political reasons?
>>55234496
No. They wanted to make an example of him. He just couldn't bear it and killed himself. A shame really. I've never met him, but all I heard and seen about him never showed any malice. Of course he was clearly autistic.
>>55234496
>is there a possibility the guy killed himself for political reasons?
ftfy
The thing is; he had a good chance to get a suspended sentence or at least probation since it was a nonviolent crime.
He was going to be the next Stallman
Too bad he was a faggot
>>55233619
An hero
Narcissist who killed himself when he realised that reality won't always bend to his will.
>>55233619
isn't that the guy who made reddit? im not glad he's dead but im glad he's gone tbqh pham
>>55233619
He made reddit.
He defended true libre source and open source alternatives.
He was an idiot a narcissist and plain pathetic when it came to dealing with certain citations.
He took the easy way out when he could have been a millionaire on Libre Source.
>>55233619
He was murdered by the powers that be because he opposed their shit new world order orwellian laws and was beginning to have too much influence.
So they killed him and put turbo SJWs in his place.
a great mind, gone too soon. I've always been a little suspicious of his death. It's not unreasonable to think he was murdered by people in high places.
>>55235918
Someone's mind isn't too great
>>55233619
Emo Pirate
Literally Redd
it
>>55236558
> does piracy
> steals stuff
> liberal anarchist
> proud of stealing stuff
> has an emo blog with emo thoughts
> commits sudoku
> founded reddit
yeah thats pretty much about right
>>55233619
He's breddy gud
>>55233619
overrated autist
>>55236630
secondead
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of
private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the
sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought
valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure
their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But
even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future.
Everything up until now will have been lost.
That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their
colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them?
Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to
children in the Global South? It's outrageous and unacceptable.
"I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they
make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal —
there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's
already being done: we can fight back.
Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been
given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world
is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for
yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords
with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
>>55237614
(cont.)
Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been
sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by
the publishers and sharing them with your friends.
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's called stealing or
piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a
ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn't immoral — it's a moral imperative. Only
those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate
require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they
have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who
can make copies.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the
grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public
culture.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with
the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need
to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific
journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open
Access.
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the
privatization of knowledge — we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?
Aaron Swartz
July 2008, Eremo, Italy
Aaron Swartz LIVES!
>>55237614
>open access
>unless you post something that's not liberal on reddit
>then censorship
>>55237847
>implying reddit administration is controlled by the ghost of Aaron Swartz
>>55237862
>ghost
He's burning in hell anon
