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[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Aaron swartz was a free speech absolutist. Not so sure he would have been on the side you want him to be on.

Aside from the whole r/jailbait grossness.

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago

What does that even mean? Aaron Swartz cowrote creative commons which was to allow for sharing some rights, not all rights. Aaron would not have stood for the scalping of people's work to create profit driven AI models. Do you just make things up without having any knowledge on the subject?

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I bet he'd be chillin on Twitter with the rest of his free speech absolutist homies.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

His death was the start of the split of the internet ideology. There's a decent chance he would've wound up like a lot of us did, but yes there's a chance he would've wound up like the technofascist side.

Most realistically though he'd probably have wound up like the peers he liked like Doctrow.