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Wasn't Schwarz freedomizing literature?

• erulabs 9y ago
  Yes, he was making papers freely available online. Papers that are created by the U.S. Academia system, which (in my opinion) is a highly regulated / controlled / subsidized ecosystem of institutions. As far as I know Schwarz never campaigned for the Department of Education to mandate "open access" to papers. Using Schwarz' name here to imply he would be -for government regulation- seems extremely wrongheaded. Using any deceased persons life as an aid to your own cause seems extremely wrongheaded too, but I suppose the major religions of the earth all rest on that very tactic...
• thephyber 9y ago
  Swartz had multiple channels of activism[1]. His participation in galvanizing the public against SOPA was to further a free and open internet. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Activism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Activism