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he organized the opposition to COICA/SOPA/PIPA. Without Aaron, you'd be typing your comment on a COICA-encumbered internet, which means, practically speaking, a
by corresation 14y ago
he organized the opposition to COICA/SOPA/PIPA. Without Aaron, you'd be typing your comment on a COICA-encumbered internet, which means, practically speaking, an internet without Wikipedia.
Citation required. Just about everyone in the tech industry, including most of the titan organizations of tech and everyone with a voice that could be heard spoke and acted against SOPA. Now it was all Aaron?
This is exactly the sort of thing that makes this whole thing bizarre (and to steal a word another poster used, ghoulish). His legacy grew ten fold the day he died, and his influence and contribution pushes back through time.
- kragen 14y agoWatch Aaron's F2C speech. COICA was voted on three days after it was introduced, long before the titan organizations heard about it. If it had passed into law before the quick-reaction movement Aaron and his buddies put together were able to get Ron Wyden to put the brakes on it — which very nearly happened — the months-long effort to organize the tech titans would never have had a chance. I admit I didn't know this until after he died, despite our friendship.