Not so fun fact: When Aaron joined the reddit team, the other founders agreed Aaron deserved the title of founder too.
A couple years after that, Spez openly bitched in a thread that Aaron shouldn’t be calling himself a founder. Aaron responded saying that it was part of the original deal but if Spez, or the other guy, wanted Aaron to stop saying he’s a founder then the two just needed to ask. They never did. Aaron died.
Reddit proceeds to grow. Site changes. Site gets a founders page. Aaron is listed alongside Steve and Alexis.
A couple years ago when Steve took over as CEO and started to abuse his admin powers to edit OTHER people’s comments, he also removed Aaron from the founders list for no reason and with no warning. When people noticed, he hid the page. It’s hard to find now but if you do? Aaron’s name is nowhere to be seen.
Jesus, Spez really is just a total shit bag. Always has been too. Fuck that guy
Yep. A couple years ago there was news that someone working at reddit was a pedophile sympathizer. Turns out an employee lived with her father. Said father was a known pedophile. She defended him, and pedophilia, in the past. People were enraged. Reddit took a very long time to fire her despite the fact that it triggered a reddit wide protest.
Spez hired her directly and didn’t want to fire her.
Then there’s the fact that Spez was a mod of the jailbait pedo subreddit. Now… At that time you could add anyone to the sub mod team and it would auto accept the invitation. That was the line going around saying why Spez was on the mod list. However given the fact he’s praising Elon Musk, a known pedophile sympathizer with ties to Epstein, and refused to fire a pedophile sympathizer he hired?
Doesn’t make Steve Huffman look like anything other than someone who’s hiding one very dark secret.
Rest in Peace Aaron.
I think Aaron would have given Steve the finger and walked too.
Everytime i watch the documentary about Aaron, it makes me rrally sad.
Which docu?
The Internet’s Own Boy. Highly recommend it, someone else posted a comment with a link to watch it:
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
I’ve been thinking about him a lot over the last few days. Wish he was still with us. RIP Aaron.
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A true martyr.
As a very out of touch dude. Who is this again? I recognize that face and I recall being genuinely sad about his death but that’s it
Founder of Reddit and one of the developers of the RSS standard.
Huge Free speach advocate and very against intellectual “property”. He wanted knowledge to be free and accessible for everyone and killed himself after he was accused of things that could’ve brought him to prison for a very long time. He probably did these things which are kinda similar to things Sci-Hub does nowadays.
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You got some good answers already but I just wanted to add…
The DOJ overcharged the hell out of him. Non violent, first time offender looking at decades? They were putting the screws on him in the hopes he’d plea, again to an unreasonable amount of time. Feels unethical to me.
Aaron Swartz and Skyrim, both awesome.
we need to set an instance/community in his name that documents all the greed aspects of internet companies and the sustainable and user friendly alternatives to fight those: like firefox is to Chrome, invidious, odysee, the fediverse, vpns, alternatives to isps (?) , i2p and p2p, Libgen, Anna’s archive …
The world needs him more than ever today. RIP 😢
I’ve fought admins tougher than you
Rip da homey. :'(
The internet’s own boy.
Gone far too soon. What happened to him was an absolute tragedy.
