Force Zuck to commit suicide!!!
There is a very good documentary about Aaron’s life: The Internet’s Own Boy
Its license is Creative Commons, so it’s on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc
Behind the bastards had a great episode on Swartz. It was their annual Christmas non bastard episode
Unfortunately I can’t listen to podcasts. If I only listen to something without visual stimulation my mind start to think about unrelated things, and I just can’t follow what they speak about, I loose track after a while.
Before podcasts there were radio talk shows, I hated them similarly, and I tuned to another station where they were playing music.
I can only listen to podcasts and I really dislike the trend of everything being videos. Especially when it’s about how to do some technical thing and you have to watch someone using a terminal or doing a physical repair… I literally CANNOT. I can’t attend to the visuals. Just zone out. I mostly listen to TV/movies. When I was a kid you could get TV stations on the radio at night and I was totally happy to just listen to them.
So you enjoy your half of the media and I’ll enjoy my half. :)
I only listen to them while driving
I also can’t listen to podcasts but mostly because I’m quite deaf and I understand 70% of speech through lip-reading ☹️
The movie is on CC? Doing Aaron proud.
laws for thee not for me
Aaron Swartz lives on
Is it safe to assume that every single author (apart from the ones that cannot prove their works were in any of those archives at the time) can sue meta for plagiarism and theft?
You can but you won’t win unless you can prove anything, so good luck with that.
Now we need something like nightshade for text.
That’s a far harder problem than it sounds unfortunately.
Yes. I see no feasible solution to this, without impacting the reader experience.
Even if you can, you’re fighting against a company that has annual revenue similar to some country’s GDP.
No company should be allowed to get this big.
*unless it’s product is collectively owned by the public and for the public as a civil service.
plagiarism is an academic crime, not a civil tort.
It’s a copyright violation to use someone’s work without permission. (Regardless of your feelings about copyright or intellectual property)
plagiarism is neither a civil tort nor a criminal offense.
Back when I worked as a designer, using work without paying for usage rights leads to exposure of being civilly sued for copyright violations.
You’re wrong. Confidently wrong.
if you were sued civilly for copyright violations, that’s not plagiarism. That’s copyright infringement. plagiarism is something else.
Plagiarism is an infringement against copyright.
no it’s not. it’s an academic crime.
if I plagiarize The Bible, that has nothing to do with copyright. it’s still plagiarism.
It’s possibly classed as fair use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc.
I am getting so sick of this fucked up world.
Crazy idea:
If copyright was invented to prevent printers from scooping authors’ work and out-competing them for sales…
Maybe copyright should only apply if you’re trying to compete with the author?
So like, not if you’re just a lowly individual trying to keep up with the references all of society is making, or understand the world you live in.
out-competing them for sales…
Boy that is a really mental gymnastics way of saying “profiting from someone else’s work”.
If we had the political power to fight Disney, then we could enact a UBI so everyone can get free art all the time.
LotR should have entered the public domain in 2023.
Instead we got the Rings of Power.
Rest in power, Aaron. 🫡
Eat the rich.
It’s Luigi time!
Fuck meta and a BIG FUCK OFF to AI and all the companies slurping up ai slop “tech” to implement it in their rubbish software, apps, white goods, appliances… Fuck. It’s just infected every conceivable facet of our lives and no one is objecting it, it’s like everyone suddenly forgot about how many engineers spoke out about the dangers!
I love Anna’s archive. I still buy e-books, but will download a drm free copy from the archive.
This is like the worst example possible, considering Aaron himself was rich, which should tell you the obvious, that being rich was never a sole differentiator.
But that might be too disruptive to the current echo chamber.
I see this post and think “progress toward the abolition of intellectual property”. I’m sure Aaron would agree.
You need to be “i own several politicians” level of rich before it helps
Tbh I just couldn’t think of a good title. Maybe “Laws don’t matter if its a company doing it”?
Meta hoards the commons like a dragon, pillaging open archives to train its soulless algorithms, while Aaron Swartz—a true steward of knowledge—was hunted down for daring to share.
One gets a slap on the wrist, the other gets a noose of legal threats. Justice? No, this is corporate feudalism, where the lords rewrite the rules and the serfs pay with their lives.
Aaron wanted liberation; Meta wants monopoly. The system rewards the parasite and punishes the visionary. Remember that next time you scroll through their ad-soaked wasteland.
They know that liberation is a threat to them.
He was murdered. He did not commit suicide.
The Schwartz wasn’t strong with him.
Suck my Schwartz.
he didn’t kill himself, he was murdered and they framed it to look like he did.
for one, he was very vocal and political, he would’ve at least left a note….
for another, he was too smart and rich to think he couldn’t at least fight the charges….
i might have believed it if he had been sentenced, but he hadn’t even begun trial.
