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[-] IlCaviale@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He fought for information to be free by pirating JSTOR papers, and he was persecuted and prosecuted for it, and he killed himself (or did he? [vsauce music]).

... And now we have SciHub. Which is the same exact fucking thing as what he was trying to accomplish.

Also he was instrumental to the invention of the RSS protocol:

As a programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons, an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses; and the Python website framework web.py. 

The same RSS protocol that spez completely killed off a few months ago. Aaron's grave has been shat on so many times that it's basically a latrine now. But the people who say "fuck spez" know none of this, and if they do, they're cowards for not saying it out loud.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yes his other work was far more instrumental. That’s also irrelevant to Reddit.

[-] IlCaviale@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

Read my edit. Spez killed off RSS a few months ago. The only irrelevance here is that of your opinions.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Aaaand right there you lost the argument.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, it still has a couple of weeks. It will end on the 13th.

Which, again who cares what Reddit does? It only affects Reddit.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I've never seen two people both lose the argument at the same time.

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