If we make a comparison between Aron's situation vs Anna's archive-Nvidia deal, we can conclude if you are not a millionare the justice is applied different.
Swartz's involvement in Reddit is debated. He is considered the co-founder of Reddit by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham as a result of the merger of Swartz's project Infogami and Reddit. With the merger of Infogami and Reddit, Swartz became a co-owner and director of parent company Not A Bug, Inc., along with Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Ohanian considers Swartz a co-owner of Reddit.
Aaron was instrumental in rewriting Reddit from spez's half-baked lisp prototype to python. And that was before python hit it big. Kn0thing can't code and neither could spez. Without Aaron, reddit would never have scaled.
Although Aaron was instrumental in reddit's success, he wasn't a founder. He became part of reddit after reddit merged with infogami after a year or so of reddit being founded. therefore not a founder.
You are correct Aaron wasn't instrumental in creating reddit (Which most would agree is a prerequisite to being considered a founder I presume.), his company got grafted to it and he was given a founder title.
One of the points of the merger was that we would all call ourselves co-founders, so that's what I've been doing. I'd be happy to stop if that's what Steve and Alexis wanted, though.
Lol the definition of words don't change just because a court said Musk is allowed to call himself that (after being sued by one of the actual founders). Not exactly a good look.
Calling everyone you disagree with "Nazi" debases what the Nazis actually did. You pollute discourse and distort the historical horrors and industrial genocide perpetuated by the fascist Nazi regime.
Besides the rule.against bringing this here, it's also just dumb. It shows incredibly clearly that you're 100% only talk. It's just so incredibly cowardly to call for someone else to sacrifice.
Ship of Theseus argument: would Aaron recognize Reddit of today with all its....improvements...as the Reddit he knew? Those two founded something that has the name but not the soul.
Reddit is a pro-American forum with hard censorship and extremist moderators. They cover that up with funny memes to look like fun. Until you think you can post something yourself.
Someone did a brief writeup on Swartz and Reddit on reddit. Pretty sure it’s been deleted, I saved it and it’s gone. It went against the hivemind take on Swartz as some sort of noble freedom fighter and offered evidence that he was naive, out of touch, didn’t have as much to do with Reddit as everyone thinks, and he was obviously troubled.
I have to take anything painting him as some kind of hero with a grain of salt.
Please be mature, don't censor words ridiculously to say the same thing. There are no automatic censorship bots here; if an admin wants to censor the word "shoot," you're not going to stop them with that.
Fun fact, while the head contains the brain, it also contains a lot of stuff that isn't the brain.
If a person were to place a gun against the side of their head and get the angle wrong, a bullet could completely miss the brain, while still causing massive damage.
Such cases have been recorded hundreds of times, in quite a few cases, the person in question has remained conscious long enough to reposition and try again.
Aaron was based. Spez is a piece of shit and greedy little piggy and Alexis is a sellout.
Reddit died around 2015 when it became AstroTurf central for the DNC. It violently swung the other way with the Donald before admins shut that down because orange man bad.
For the record, fuck Donald Trump. He's a monster. Banning speech and calling everyone fascist doesn't help anyone though.
You're free to say whatever you want, and we're free to tell bigots to fuck off, because we're not required to listen to your bullshit.
Private websites are not required to host your hatred, that's compelled speech, and is a violation of the First Amendment. Not that conservatives have ever cared about other people's rights.
I was around to read r/theDonald when it existed. It was a horrible place of absolute hatred and banning it was a decent thing to do. It wasn't an exercise of free speech, it was an exercise of a Russian/Chinese psyops operation.
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ceenote@lemmy.world · 182 pts · 135d
Well, see, Aaron Swartz isn't a billionaire, so he doesn't matter.
Horsey@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 134d
He’s also been dead for over a decade, sadly.
j_0t@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 134d
If we make a comparison between Aron's situation vs Anna's archive-Nvidia deal, we can conclude if you are not a millionare the justice is applied different.
Doom@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 134d
There are two justice systems. Always has been. One for the elites and one for the rest of us.
Kirk@startrek.website · 153 pts · 135d
For those not in the know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#cite_note-7
OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 134d
Sounds like a similar situation to Elon and Tesla, no?
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 34 pts · 134d
Arguably Elon and PayPal, since that was a merger, but not Tesla, which he bought his way into ex post facto.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 134d
what a coincidence, Huffman love kissing musk's ass from time to time.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 134d
Aaron was instrumental in rewriting Reddit from spez's half-baked lisp prototype to python. And that was before python hit it big. Kn0thing can't code and neither could spez. Without Aaron, reddit would never have scaled.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 103 pts · 135d
Fuck /u/spez
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 104d
Reminder that Steve Huffman is greedy little pig boy
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 77 pts · 135d
lol at the redacted usernames, like it's a secret or something
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 16 pts · 135d
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 134d
Fuck Spez
osanna@lemmy.vg · 34 pts · 134d
Although Aaron was instrumental in reddit's success, he wasn't a founder. He became part of reddit after reddit merged with infogami after a year or so of reddit being founded. therefore not a founder.
Stern@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 134d
It's a definition thing.
You are correct Aaron wasn't instrumental in creating reddit (Which most would agree is a prerequisite to being considered a founder I presume.), his company got grafted to it and he was given a founder title.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 134d
So the comment above you is wrong
Stern@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 133d
Again, depends on how you define founder. In the real sense, he's not. In the legal sense, he is. Per Aaron's reddit account-
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cofounder_aaron_swartz_discusses_how_he/c1oewi/
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 133d
sounds like a founder in all but name, so what if he came a year later, the intent to leave him out is clear considering they were willing to before.
VAK@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 134d
That's not how that works. Famously McDonald's and Tesla for example.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 134d
Musk isn't a founder of Tesla
VAK@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d
https://web.archive.org/web/20201115134134/https://www.cnet.com/news/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-are-five/
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 133d
Lol the definition of words don't change just because a court said Musk is allowed to call himself that (after being sued by one of the actual founders). Not exactly a good look.
VAK@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 132d
Sure buddy
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 132d
Lol am I wrong?
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 134d
rest in force Aaron
Redvenom@retrolemmy.com · 27 pts · 134d
Fuck reddit
catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 134d
Steve Huffman... Isn't he that greedy little pig boy?
osanna@lemmy.vg · 19 pts · 134d
awww come on. pigs are smart intelligent beings. Quite the opposite of spez.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 135d
From Wikipedia
I think it's reasonable to say that if you weren't there for the original ideation, you're not a founder. Doesn't mean Aaron wasn't an amazing person.
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today · 45 pts · 135d
berno@lemmy.world · -38 pts · 135d
What the fuck are you talking about
Calling everyone you disagree with "Nazi" debases what the Nazis actually did. You pollute discourse and distort the historical horrors and industrial genocide perpetuated by the fascist Nazi regime.
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today · 37 pts · 135d
null@lemmy.org · 14 pts · 135d
This exchange is hilarious.
berno@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 135d
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 134d
Though this one may be more apt:
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 133d
If only I had a nickel for every time a .world user defended Nazis.
flamingleg@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 134d
something tells me you're not going to get the full objective history of this from wikipedia
VAK@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 134d
That's not how it works. It's building the company that counts. More pragmatically if existing cofounders said you're a cofounder, then you are.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 134d
im pretty sure he is a founder, he was even named by the other cof-ounders. he must be significant enough to have that title.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 135d
verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 6 pts · 135d
yucandu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
Where does he live?
Serinus@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 134d
Besides the rule.against bringing this here, it's also just dumb. It shows incredibly clearly that you're 100% only talk. It's just so incredibly cowardly to call for someone else to sacrifice.
yucandu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d
I think you got the wrong comment, I just asked where he lives.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 134d
huffman cant stop smelling MUSKs faerts, ohanian sold out for something else.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 134d
"huffing" was right there, man
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 134d
Justice for Aaron Swartz
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 17 pts · 135d
Ship of Theseus argument: would Aaron recognize Reddit of today with all its....improvements...as the Reddit he knew? Those two founded something that has the name but not the soul.
ChokingHazard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d
What are these improvements you speak of? Pretty sure it’s been enshitified.
axx@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 134d
Improvements used here in an ironic way.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 134d
enshittification started when trump 1st term came about, every sub became more and infested with propaganda/politics.
green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 16 pts · 133d
fuck u/spez
lennybird@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 134d
Aaron was by far the best of them all. That documentary moved me to tears...
borQue@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 134d
Reddit is a pro-American forum with hard censorship and extremist moderators. They cover that up with funny memes to look like fun. Until you think you can post something yourself.
vga@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 134d
Could you post the URL this is from and not just a screenshot?
GatekeeperOnTurdMountain@programming.dev · 5 pts · 135d
ikidd@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 134d
Murdered by Carmen Ortiz.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 134d
Reddit in a nutshell
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 134d
Dude that's FUCKED up.
Fuck Spez.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 131d
spez is a opportunistic dickhead, no doubt.
mrslt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 134d
That tracks. Fuck reddit and fuck spez.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 134d
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d
Someone did a brief writeup on Swartz and Reddit on reddit. Pretty sure it’s been deleted, I saved it and it’s gone. It went against the hivemind take on Swartz as some sort of noble freedom fighter and offered evidence that he was naive, out of touch, didn’t have as much to do with Reddit as everyone thinks, and he was obviously troubled.
I have to take anything painting him as some kind of hero with a grain of salt.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 134d
He was a little naive. That doesn't change everything that happened to him
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 134d
GatekeeperOnTurdMountain@programming.dev · 0 pts · 135d
Foni@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 135d
Please be mature, don't censor words ridiculously to say the same thing. There are no automatic censorship bots here; if an admin wants to censor the word "shoot," you're not going to stop them with that.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 134d
Fun fact, while the head contains the brain, it also contains a lot of stuff that isn't the brain.
If a person were to place a gun against the side of their head and get the angle wrong, a bullet could completely miss the brain, while still causing massive damage.
Such cases have been recorded hundreds of times, in quite a few cases, the person in question has remained conscious long enough to reposition and try again.
shynoise@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 134d
We gotta talk about your definition of "fun fact" my guy
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d
The fun fact was just that the head contains other stuff than the brain.
The rest was less fun.
yesman@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 135d
Arron Schwartz is right there on the top of the page!
Maybe they thought it would be disrespectful to use an avatar for a deceased person?
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 135d
That's from Google....
berno@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 135d
Aaron was based. Spez is a piece of shit and greedy little piggy and Alexis is a sellout.
Reddit died around 2015 when it became AstroTurf central for the DNC. It violently swung the other way with the Donald before admins shut that down because orange man bad.
For the record, fuck Donald Trump. He's a monster. Banning speech and calling everyone fascist doesn't help anyone though.
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 18 pts · 135d
berno@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 135d
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 134d
Ah, someone who doesn't understand Free Speech.
You're free to say whatever you want, and we're free to tell bigots to fuck off, because we're not required to listen to your bullshit.
Private websites are not required to host your hatred, that's compelled speech, and is a violation of the First Amendment. Not that conservatives have ever cared about other people's rights.
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 134d
neoinvin@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 135d
what word is it you want to say? don't be shy now
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 135d
TaterTot@piefed.social · 4 pts · 134d
Snollygoster
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 134d
vga@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 134d
I was around to read r/theDonald when it existed. It was a horrible place of absolute hatred and banning it was a decent thing to do. It wasn't an exercise of free speech, it was an exercise of a Russian/Chinese psyops operation.