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> the way he went about getting the data was throwing soup at paintings levels of dumb activism. Throwing soup at paintings doesn’t make the paintings availabl

• cowsandmilk 2y ago
  > What he did had a direct and practical effect The main impact of Aaron Swartz’s actions were that it became much more difficult to walk onto MIT’s campus and access journal articles from a laptop without being a member of the MIT community. I did this for a decade beforehand and this became much more locked down in the years after his actions due to restrictions the publishers pushed at MIT. Aaron intentionally went to the more open academic community in Cambridge (Harvard, his employer, was much more restrictive) and in the process ruined that openness for everyone.
  • breck 2y ago
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