2 ms·

I do recall that a "famous redditor" was driven to suicide for making works available and he wasn't even making money for it.

Rodmine 3mo ago
[flagged]
- root_axis 3mo ago
  No he wasn't, stop spreading lies.
archerx 3mo ago
He wasn’t just some famous redditor. Aaron Swartz helped create Reddit and invented RSS. If I put my conspiracy theory hat one and I always get piled on for this theory in other online communities but I think it could be possible. The theory is I think Aaron found some very dark stuff while exploring the MIT private networks, things that he was not supposed to see and could be very damaging to a lot people if they were exposed. The infamous Jeffery Epstein was donating a lot of money to MIT and its Media Labs. I think there is a much deeper story at play that the mainstream narrative is hiding with a “suicide”.
- kimjune01 3mo ago
  understatement is a kind of humor, when he said 'redditor'
- nylonstrung 3mo ago
  If he found fucked up stuff regarding crimes way worse than his on university networks don't you think he could have gotten out of the sentencing entirely by cooperating against them Epstein was relatively restrained even in his personal email, I doubt he was using MIT administrated systems to facilitate a pedo ring
  - vagrantJin 3mo ago
    It's not that simple. If he did find dark stuff, and he got caught - he will have both the state murderers and the filth on his case. That's the best case scenario assuming the state isn't on the side of the filth by which case he was cooked no matter what he did. Filth does not even have come after you. They can just send you a family portrait and you'd know the hole is deep and only one way out.
  - avesi 3mo ago
    Have you seen how the legal system is protecting everyone associated with those crimes, despite how high profile they are?
- inigyou 3mo ago
  Aaron Swartz founded Reddit in the same way that Elon Musk founded Tesla, but without the money.
  - archerx 3mo ago
    Right with his tech skills instead of money.
    - inigyou 3mo ago
      No, he was added later to an already existing project and claimed credit for it.
      - archerx 3mo ago
        Ok Spez
  - ChrisRR 3mo ago
    No Aaron joined reddit through a merger of the company he co-founded, where he was a developer. Musk just threw money at it
- Quothling 3mo ago
  I'm not from the USA so my views are obviously biased by this. I very much doubt Epstein committed suicide, and it's been wild to watch you guys deal with it, not releasing the files, holding nobody accountable and so on. That being said, I also don't think there needs to be a big dark secret to explain why someone caught in the USA justice system would commit suicide. It's crazy that you could face 35 years in jail for trying to free knowledge in a harmless manner. The longest anyone has been imprisoned for in my country in modern times is 26 years, 11 months and 6 days. We have a few people posed to break that record. Peter Lundin has been in prison for 25ish years, and him and Peter Madsen (the discount elon musk turned murderer who killed some poor journalist in is selfmade submarine) are contenders to people who will probably go beyond 35 years. Not that our system is perfect. I think we're far too lenient on some crimes, but risking 35 years in jail for downloading and sharing academic knowledge... That's objectively evil.
- satvikpendem 3mo ago
  That's the joke, why do you think they put it in quotes?
  - s3p 3mo ago
    I didn't understand it
- phailhaus 3mo ago
  Your theory is that he found "very dark stuff" that is accessible to any MIT student? Schwartz didn't "hack" anything, he connected to their student network and downloaded articles that they had access to but the public didn't.

Rodmine 3mo ago

[flagged]

root_axis 3mo ago
No he wasn't, stop spreading lies.

archerx 3mo ago

He wasn’t just some famous redditor. Aaron Swartz helped create Reddit and invented RSS. If I put my conspiracy theory hat one and I always get piled on for this theory in other online communities but I think it could be possible. The theory is I think Aaron found some very dark stuff while exploring the MIT private networks, things that he was not supposed to see and could be very damaging to a lot people if they were exposed. The infamous Jeffery Epstein was donating a lot of money to MIT and its Media Labs. I think there is a much deeper story at play that the mainstream narrative is hiding with a “suicide”.

kimjune01 3mo ago
understatement is a kind of humor, when he said 'redditor'
nylonstrung 3mo ago
If he found fucked up stuff regarding crimes way worse than his on university networks don't you think he could have gotten out of the sentencing entirely by cooperating against them Epstein was relatively restrained even in his personal email, I doubt he was using MIT administrated systems to facilitate a pedo ring
- vagrantJin 3mo ago
  It's not that simple. If he did find dark stuff, and he got caught - he will have both the state murderers and the filth on his case. That's the best case scenario assuming the state isn't on the side of the filth by which case he was cooked no matter what he did. Filth does not even have come after you. They can just send you a family portrait and you'd know the hole is deep and only one way out.
- avesi 3mo ago
  Have you seen how the legal system is protecting everyone associated with those crimes, despite how high profile they are?
inigyou 3mo ago
Aaron Swartz founded Reddit in the same way that Elon Musk founded Tesla, but without the money.
- archerx 3mo ago
  Right with his tech skills instead of money.
  - inigyou 3mo ago
    No, he was added later to an already existing project and claimed credit for it.
    - archerx 3mo ago
      Ok Spez
- ChrisRR 3mo ago
  No Aaron joined reddit through a merger of the company he co-founded, where he was a developer. Musk just threw money at it
Quothling 3mo ago
I'm not from the USA so my views are obviously biased by this. I very much doubt Epstein committed suicide, and it's been wild to watch you guys deal with it, not releasing the files, holding nobody accountable and so on. That being said, I also don't think there needs to be a big dark secret to explain why someone caught in the USA justice system would commit suicide. It's crazy that you could face 35 years in jail for trying to free knowledge in a harmless manner. The longest anyone has been imprisoned for in my country in modern times is 26 years, 11 months and 6 days. We have a few people posed to break that record. Peter Lundin has been in prison for 25ish years, and him and Peter Madsen (the discount elon musk turned murderer who killed some poor journalist in is selfmade submarine) are contenders to people who will probably go beyond 35 years. Not that our system is perfect. I think we're far too lenient on some crimes, but risking 35 years in jail for downloading and sharing academic knowledge... That's objectively evil.
satvikpendem 3mo ago
That's the joke, why do you think they put it in quotes?
- s3p 3mo ago
  I didn't understand it
phailhaus 3mo ago
Your theory is that he found "very dark stuff" that is accessible to any MIT student? Schwartz didn't "hack" anything, he connected to their student network and downloaded articles that they had access to but the public didn't.