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Please don't presume to know what would or wouldn't make Aaron Swartz happy.

• 0xcde4c3db 3y ago
  Who's presuming? Swartz was remarkably vocal about his aspirations for the internet, and I definitely don't remember hearing him say that the future we ought to fight for is one where APIs wrapping user-generated content are only accessible to institutions with deep pockets.
• kabirgoel 3y ago
  While OP could have worded their comment better, this is exactly the kind of thing that Swartz explicitly aligned himself against. [1] It would be incredibly surprising for Swartz to have supported the kind of bait-and-switch tactics Reddit is employing here. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto
• iguana_lawyer 3y ago
  We know precisely what Aaron Swartz believed because he gave his life for it
• srge 3y ago
  r/gatekeeping