Today would have been Aaron Swartz’s birthday. It's a great time to think on everything he did for the open web, digital rights and open access to knowledge. He was a brilliant person who left us way too soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
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@nixCraft The movement to internet freedom still matters!
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz : Brian Knappenberger : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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@nixCraft Driving somebody to suicide is murder and the just punishment for murder is death.
Now, the state should not have the right to kill people because states always abuse it. But that doesn't change what is deserved and justice won't be served until those responsible are dead.
Revolutions are scary because they're essentially rolling the dice on whether good people have enough guns and drones. But they are also a time when old injustices can be set straight.
Meanwhile Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and other AI companies committing copyright violations openly and profiting from it daily. There is no justice in this world. I hate everything about this.
@nixCraft It grinds me every year 💯
yeah but we're still here and we still matter
just being here on mastodon is big middle finger to the slopmongers
it's not over. more people will come to understand our point. and we will make a difference
for aaron
@nixCraft And boy was he done dirty by the FBI. Lets not leave out that part. The people that hounded him into an early grave.