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[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

Rest in power, Aaron. 🫡

Eat the rich.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Not to mention that Swartz had a JSTOR account, which means he was legally entitled to download the things that he did. The part they didn't like was that he used scripts to download en-mass, and a bunch of boomer fucks thought he actually committed a crime.

[–] detun3d@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Important to note Aaron was helping democratize information while companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft just centralize, twist and redact information to monetize access to a dumbed down and censored version of it.