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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu Subscribe It's wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles. Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well. Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to Al companies) - all by the age of 26. All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he'd have made on the world if he was still alive today. Susan Swartz @beadmomsw. Jul 12 11 years, 6 months. RIP my darling boy. Aaron agood, 6:53 AM - Jul 13, 2024 301.6K Views 52 1.3K 6.9K ☐ 593 <]
The page at www.miep.uscourts.gov says: PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW! End Prosecutorial Overreach! OK
In Memoriam, Aaron Swartz, November 8, 1986-January 11, 2013, Requiescat in pace. A brief message from Anonymous Whether or not the government contributed to his suiclde, the government's JusticeForAaronSwatz reemanning OpFreeAssange Antisec prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron dled fighting for freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who pald for It- enabling the collective betterment of the world through the faclitation of sharing- an ideal that we should all support Moreover, the situation Aaron found himself in highlights the injustice of U.S.computer crime laws, particularly their punishment regimes, and the highly-questionable justice of pre-trial bargaining. Aaron's act was undoubtedly political activism; it had tragia consequences
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