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20287348? ago

He was arrested by the secret service, let that sink in

20284968? ago

Fuck that criminal scumbag. If you weren't around for his reddit scamming days, you know nothing but the massive propaganda effort they shoved down your throat.

20286232? ago

I encourage people to research for themselves, using their own discernment, to form their own conclusions. No one’s perfect.

20287666? ago

Probably most of that has been scrubbed or altered, if you were to search. Heres the super brief version, but this was huge public drama back in the day. Aaron Swartz made a company that failed. His 'investor' had also invested in reddit. A deal was arranged for Swartz to go work at reddit, and that work would earn him co-founder status. Seemingly all well and good, but Swartz decided he disliked working, abandoned his coding projects, and took off for Thailand to do drugs and degenerate himself in various other ways. This was a very big topic of early reddit, as you can imagine.

Anyway, some people unknown to me decided that a "Saint Swartz" would be a good thing, and they recast his life in the movie "the internets own boy" as the character you probably see described to this day. I think that piece of shit should have been prevented from skipping out on his (ridiculously low 3 month sentence) debt to society, and made to serve his full sentence.

You've probably seen other revisions of history, but this is one that seems to have stuck quite well. Am I annoyed? Yes, people who self-righteously repeat things they know nothing about tend to irritate me, and this one has been going on for quite a while. Even on voat, you'll see people who idolize that turd because the propaganda they consumed was tasty.

This was probably in 2005 or 2006, when I first made a reddit account. Was a small place back then. /rant

20284761? ago

Holy crap! The article redirects to something with no teeth now. Who is this Lucas Magnuson? This person wrote one article for Neon Nettle, and is now disappeared.

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20283765? ago

Yes

20283555? ago

Aaron Swartz found something and was suicided.

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