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Well people don’t write stories about Aaron Swartz because he worked at Reddit, they write about him because he was persecuted by the corporate-government compl
by spoonjim 6y ago
Well people don’t write stories about Aaron Swartz because he worked at Reddit, they write about him because he was persecuted by the corporate-government complex.
- echelon 6y ago> because he was persecuted by the corporate-government complex. This isn't quite right either. They write them because he was awesome. Aaron helped in the development of RSS and Creative Commons. He was everywhere you looked, and all around incredibly insightful (his book reviews and blog are still amazing). He was also well connected: Tim Berners-Lee, Lawrence Lessig, John Gruber, Paul Graham, ... He was one of the brightest beacons for open source, open knowledge, the web, and open culture. He was incredibly well known and liked before the MIT / JSTOR witch hunt killed him. We lost a luminary. Our world would have been brighter if he were still around.