How Downloading Too Much Destroyed Reddit's Founder

[@Newsthink]

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[@goodnightmr5892]

This censorship shit needs to go. I think it’s time to create something new.

[@Newb1eYou_]

Oh thats why...

[@hansolowe19]

I don't care, stop this clickbaity rubbish.

[@erideimos1207]

Lol, after reading your first sentence, I'm scared to answer your second. :) Great vid, thanks!

[@relaxingmusic911]

Relax your mind with these following music kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpPKZ2uiq9qHfbM 🥰🥰🥰

[@Nick-xc4fy]

The potential jail time and the way he was treated was worse than how the law deals with peadophiles and drug dealers. There's so much wrong with the law.

[@escapefr0mslender]

Yeaah

[@VoxLott]

USA law

[@Redline6ix]

@@VoxLott Come see Canadas law and judicial system, it will make you want to live in the forest

[@victordelorientis8763]

Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison.

[@jackadam01]

​@@Redline6ix True, my friend was murdered in St. John's, NL, in a knife attack. There was footage of the murder, which the police had collected from street cameras. Despite this evidence, all three individuals involved in the murder were acquitted. The judge, exhibiting blatant bias, sympathized with the murderers, commenting on their youth and potential for a future, stating they had "made a mistake." This situation deeply disgusts me. The lack of support for the victim's family compounded the tragedy. My friend's mother, devastated and unsupported, took her own life before the trial concluded. This case affected me profoundly, not only because I lost a dear friend but also because it laid bare the profound injustices within the Canadian justice system. It is a system that seems to protect the worst, leaving victims and their families to struggle alone. Meanwhile, criminals receive extensive support to defend themselves. Canada desperately needs sweeping reforms across its justice and political systems. The entire country needs an overhaul...

[@jakejake7289]

35 years??? Serial killers get less!!

[@Tesseract9630]

And murders get less to especially if they are female. Females only get max of 6 years in prison for killing their husbands or boyfriends.

[@icekingforyou]

50 i guess

[@crackjee9301]

He got 50 yearsi think

[@johnpersechini4951]

6 months he was offered. But you need strict laws to deter hackers. The stricter sentences are for those who steal money and people’s identity etc I’m guessing.

[@JohnTezlaNFS]

It was 50......

[@KrishnaSoftMatterLab]

Saddening. Broken system. People behind Google, Facebook can see user data without user’s consent and pay a few million dollars and live a happy life. But a person like Aaron emotionally tortured. Stealing is crime irrespective of form. That’s how she justifies. The only diff between Aaron and Zuck is zuck got money to make the lawmakers happy.

[@archmad]

he had mental problem

[@thrillereighties8241]

Do you pay using Google, Facebook or any other free-to-use platform? No one forces you to use them. The benefits you gain from using these platforms far outweigh them knowing what shampoo brand you prefer.

[@vortolex]

You are totally correct but also totally wrong it is even retarded to think that way Mark Zukeberg didn’t make Facebook is was giving to him by whom you are wondering don’t look at them look at the big guys with the hidden technologies such as DARPA US NAVY Tor and more of secret project that have been handling to selected group as a part of an experiment for the US Military to see how would a world would look like with the internet then manipulated the internet or their liking using it as an example to other. It doesn’t require to much thinking only a fool would believe a fool of not knowing it’s own demise. Aaron would be a hero to me as to anyone they or them must pay for theirs crimes the world stage is build already for those who already designed it now are crumbling under our feet by the same people who harm him and us the same to them. ;) the best is yet to come. Have a nice day.

[@Uncle_Jon]

You give your consent as soon as you sign up for FB, Google, etc... It's all part of the TOS.

[@PhillipWenger]

​@@Uncle_Jon_Exactly._

[@alejandromedina1019]

Thank you for keeping Aaron's story alive. Something else that not many people know is that he also helped create Markdown, a markup language that's vastly used everyday. Rest in power!

[@krisb-travel]

“Stealing is stealing” yep and look at what’s happening in California and New York. They don’t even get arrested.

[@wrightvcx2249]

Comparing Silk road founder who was selling drugs with Aaron is unfair.

[@LUFFNINJA]

I know huh, Poor guy is still catching strays R.I.p. Aaron

[@kovy689]

Aaron Swartz died exposing the evil cabal.

[@tranquil0335]

Thank you, Newsthink, for bringing awareness to this. Means a lot.

[@alejandromedina1019]

kinda agree with you, I think it should fundamentally be free, but Brilliant is not Jstor. Brilliant it's actually creating value with their gamified learning tools, Jstor is a vulture company that gives 0 fucks about the development of humanity and hordes knowelge that we already payed for.

[@catchowens1402]

Newsthink, left out a lot of stuff they don't tell you how the F.B.I. were following Aaron and would not leave him alone. You know people depend on these Media Outlets to provide knowledge. The information you need to be able to make a choice. Last thing it is better for you to do a little research yourself instead of just watching one thing try reading the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto.

[@TransgirlsEnjoyer]

need awareness on how it happened under obama to send a message and how obama refused to fire killer prosecutor Carmen orbitz despite a big petition

[@pratyushkashyap849]

This is disgusting. Our govt makes me physically sick when I see these things.. attacking good hearted, intelligent, and enlightened people. Who just fight for our rights as people, as citizens, our right to information and a real education on laws and on social injustice. This is horrific.

[@mikhelBrown]

Wiki says he commited Suicide. Death by hanging. 🙄🥴💯

[@jme2006]

You can't exactly expect to damage quarterly profits of JSTOR and other journal businesses and expect no repercussions. They have a pipeline to lobby and invest in government as a means to protect their bottom line. It isn't exactly a govt issue, govt is simply a tool, and ironically, your only outlet to regulate businesses being able to abuse it for IP-protection overreach.

[@himanshusingh5214]

@@jme2006 Govt is not supposed to be a tool especially this cheap.

[@PeterSramka]

He broke the law. They offered him a very lenient deal: 6 months in a minimum security prison. He refused. No one is above the law.

[@dilapnapunjabi703]

So true man. Government should never have existed

[@kareneDallas]

I remember reading about Aaron Swartz years ago. Such a tragic loss of someone so talented. His vision of the benefits to humanity of the Internet was so optimistic. He was ahead of his time.

[@mananpandya1397]

There are a lot of people including Aaron that the world does not deserve - Snowden, Julian Assange, Edward Manning to name a few. They are too pure to understand that even though they fight for everyone, "few" will stand up for them.

[@Live-hh6li]

Very true

[@goattttttt954]

Lmao not Assange

[@Bitcosb]

@@goattttttt954 why not assange

[@jme2006]

Chelsea* manning

[@BabyMusk_AI]

Trump is in that category too. A true American hero.

[@MANIVANNAN94]

Do you know during Ebola pandemic African Doctors couldn't get the proper knowledge of virus because the research paper was unaffordable to them..

[@robkino6137]

"BUT MUH COPYRIGHT! MUH UNIVERSITY PROPERTY!" - Literal subhumans

[@macforme]

If true... that is disgusting.

[@rodschmidt8952]

ChatGPT says: False. While access to research papers and scientific literature can be a challenge in many parts of the world due to subscription costs or lack of access to academic resources, it's not accurate to say that African doctors couldn't get proper knowledge of the Ebola virus during the pandemic solely because research papers were unaffordable to them. During the Ebola pandemic, efforts were made to disseminate information and research findings widely, including through open-access publications, international collaborations, and initiatives to share data and findings. Additionally, organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) provided critical information and resources to healthcare workers in affected regions. While there may have been barriers to accessing some research papers, various channels existed for African doctors and healthcare workers to access the knowledge needed to understand and respond to the Ebola virus during the pandemic.

[@ohno7544]

@@rodschmidt8952 lil bro, the quora people use chatgpt as a lazy answer to get free views.

[@silphonym]

​@@rodschmidt8952Do not use chatgpt as a source. It is not credible.

[@xXtenseXx]

Its called the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. - George Carlin

[@WoahItsKimber]

I'm so happy to see such a large channel shining light on Aaron's story. Thank you

[@TwiztedHumor]

This man Aaron is an absolute American hero!!! The fact that he was sentenced to such a draconian degree tells you the level of criminality and moral rot in our academic institutions.

[@emifro]

Brilliant is literally what Aaron was against, knowledge locked behind a paywall.

[@nexterbybyegal]

But you could argue that you're paying for the fancy ways to gain knowledge and not the knowledge itself.

[@tranquil0335]

@@nexterbybyegal ^

[@spiderjerusalem4009]

and the those knowledges behind paywall are imparted merely under the notion "tips&tricks" yet no intuition/historical background on how people back in the day came to derive them/leastwise what they'd tried & thought prior to it. How do you think Gauss, euler, ramanujan, david hilbert, poincaré, lagrange, laplace, reimann, cauchy, galois, & etc many more had the incentive to invent/discover things that we use today but had to learn under a certain amount of time due to the formal system, but all of them weren't produced under such "certain amount of time"? Tells you why we rarely have any polymaths now, notably since the industrial revolution, where most people have since been isolated in the most unmotivating steps by which you can get the answers if you don't comprehend anything

[@affirmajim8510]

and the those knowledges behind paywall are imparted merely under the notion "tips&tricks" yet no intuition/historical background on how people back in the day came to derive them/leastwise what they'd tried & thought prior to it. How do you think Gauss, euler, ramanujan, david hilbert, poincaré, lagrange, laplace, reimann, cauchy, galois, & etc many more had the incentive to invent/discover things that we use today but had to learn under a certain amount of time due to the formal system, but all of them weren't produced under such "certain amount of time"? Tells you why we rarely have any polymaths now, notably since the industrial revolution, where most people have since been isolated in the most unmotivating steps by which you can get the answers if you don't comprehend anything

[@henocksherlock3340]

and those knowledges behind paywall are imparted merely under the notion "tips&tricks" yet no intuition/historical background on how people back in the day came to derive them/leastwise what they'd tried & thought prior to it. How do you think Gauss, euler, ramanujan, david hilbert, poincaré, lagrange, laplace, reimann, cauchy, galois, & etc many more had the incentive to invent/discover things that we use today but had to learn under a certain amount of time due to the formal system, but all of them weren't produced under such "certain amount of time"? Tells you why we rarely have any polymaths now, notably since the industrial revolution, where most people have since been isolated in the most unmotivating steps by which you can get the answers if you don't comprehend anything.

[@MeAndMyRoyalEnfield]

It's a shame that the few who have a vision and knowledge and dare to step out of the norm for the benefit of mankind find themselves in such horrific situations. We are such a passionate, compassionate, and cruel species.

[@TechsumitX]

This made me think about Nikola tesla Who wanted electricity in whole world to be free

[@StoutProper]

@@TechsumitX came to write the same thing. And both were killed by us authorities, no coincidence.

[@charvy3438]

Scientific journals should not own the research results! They did not pay for the research, taxpayers did! The system is broken and Aaron was right! We need more people like him.

[@LUFFNINJA]

Sadly there is no room. In this world for such "Radical" people. THEY NEED TO LOOK AT INTENTIONS AND JUDGE BY THE HARM ON HUMANITY NOT THE HARM ON MAJOR CORPORATIONS

[@NishaRana_91]

He didn't kill anyone, he didn't steal money. He was not a criminal but was treated like one. Shame on such justice system.

[@DarcyWalker]

He literally illegally downloaded hundreds of thousands of dollars in ebooks

[@yerip7706]

⁠@@DarcyWalkeryou must really hate the Creative Commons license

[@TransgirlsEnjoyer]

shame on obama who sent his federal prosecutors after him and decline to fire that lady prosecutor

[@kovy689]

Agreed. The irony is he died exposing the predos…

[@hackedagent1008]

Smh bro is getting a longer sentence than serial killers and pedos.

[@csy897]

When I started learning to program, I learned about him because he was the creator of markdown. Just reading his wiki page broke my heart. I wish that somehow I could turn back time and meet him before he took his own life. If I met him back then, could I have stopped it? If even I thought that, I can't imagine the grief the people around him felt. Everyone who has ever spoken to him would probably grieve for the genius that we lost too soon.

[@gr8dvd]

👍👍👍 So difficult to know much less thwart suicidal tendencies. Decades ago lost a colleague to suicide, still haunts me.

[@RedDread_]

Aaron would be turning in his grave if he knew what reddit is like now

[@BrokenStarX5]

💔 😢 he was not only genius but a good person too.. your legacy will never be forgotten 💗🙏

[@XxExternalBleedin100]

I did not expect this video to end this way. I hope more & more people get to know about this. Thank you Aaron Swartz...

[@danielx40]

What a guy. What a freaking guy. I thought those things are only in movies.

[@ngpb17]

We live in a messed up world. A sociopathic world, money and profits are more important than the life of a good person.

[@selispeks]

This broke my heart. I had no idea. I use Creative Commons all the time. Seeing where it came from breaks my heart. I wish he was still here. I think we'd be in a vastly different world.

[@hernan.guerrero8362]

Sad story. I understand partly why he took the "extreme decision" since my walk of life is tainted as well by depression

[@astrosci1109]

God bless you. Things will get well soon. Stay calm

[@collectorguy3919]

@@astrosci1109 I'm sure you have good intentions, but things do not magically improve, and telling a person that and to stay calm is not helpful. The only thing that can improve is a person's ability to cope, and that requires hard work that never ends, and there's no guarantee that it's nearly enough. It's exhausting. Depression is so isolating because so many people don't understand (mercifully for them) and offer meaningless advice or wishful thinking that rings hollow. It has the effect of belittling a person. Imagine saying that to a person with a broken leg that won't heal. People with depression are under constant bombardment that they are only imagining a problem, because it's not obvious. I'm trying to offer insight to you, given in good faith, but imperfectly of course. No doubt, you mean well.

[@Tenchi707]

@@collectorguy3919 If you had the most delicious food at 10 metres away from you, a depressed person despite being hungry would have thoughts damn I gotta go there first, people think that's lazy but it's the mental state where you just don't wanna exist, you don't feel like doing anything, simply just existing is hard

[@astrosci1109]

​@@Tenchi707 man , depression is hard as heck. I feel bad for them . I sometimes wish I was an understanding sort of person who could somehow help them out.

[@astrosci1109]

​@@collectorguy3919 yeah I wrote it just wishing good. I didn't know it had such an impact.

[@minos99]

In a world where Big Tech is serially breaching copyright to obtain training data for large AI models... I'm convinced the law is a single edged sword, blunt when dealing with Trillion dollar companies and ruthless to individuals.

[@ludwigthouvenin2012]

the irony of having a paid educational ressource as a sponsor

[@reptileandad]

A beautiful mind in an ugly world. Paying tribute and respect to this great man. And cursing all the old and evil outdated people to hell soon

[@itsmanishaaa]

Remember seeing a documentary on Aaron back in 2016 and i ugly sobbed at what he got after all this. This is what the world order does, suppress the enlightened and fuel the fools. Rest in Power Aaron.

[@IsaIbnHalim]

This story needs to be told more and more. Good on you all for raising awareness about him. Ridiculous.

[@ThePadmaj]

The most righteous are either vulnerable or under a grave.

[@PrimitiveMind]

I love your content Newsthink and I appreciate you. Thank you for sharing this tragic story with us.

[@cheeneep]

In my opinion, people underestimate the value of academic documents. Cost of research is not cheap and universities dump thousands to millions of dollars just to produce those PDFs that we take for granted. The only time it becomes an issue is when the government itself charges the taxpayers to get a copy of their own documents. (Like how it is a stupid idea for banks to charge people if they want to withdraw their own money)

[@drew3976]

I mean no one’s doubting those academic studies cost money to conduct. What troubles me is that anyone would try and limit information based on a “pay gate”. Especially considering a lot of these were funded by tax payers. Don’t you find it ironic that the same people who help fund this are deemed too stupid to read the data?

[@drew3976]

Nice edit

[@Jack-lo2iu]

Universities and the authors of these papers get zero dollars, all the money goes to the publisher. Not to mention a lot of research is at least in part funded by government sources like the nsf or the nih

[@mattkasmir7050]

100%. There are so many self-proclaimed experts these days who don’t even comprehend how wrong they are on various issues. And they aren’t able to be corrected because the actual facts (scientific articles) are locked behind absurd paywalls in most cases. It’s absolutely horrific and I have nothing but respect for what this man was trying to attain.

[@rogergalindo7318]

the issue here is that the government is not who is charging for the papers, it’s a company, for which the researchers have to pay for to upload their work, and after that, they don’t get paid even if other people pay through the platform for such research

[@angeloparra3351]

I thought this video was amazing and I thank you for sharing this story.... although I do find it hilarious that your ad at the end is literally for a paid service to learn

[@MySUHIT]

Yepp, ironic even, one might say.

[@Pathlogos]

The audacity to combine Aaron s story and paid lessons. Just brilliant

[@3qlw4utho3p4ht]

They don't punish some of the most crooked SOBs enough and yet they led this brilliant man to his death.

[@paul5475]

This just prove how this world is being function by money but not by kindness and humanity.

[@canuck21]

It's sad that now Reddit is full of censorship.

[@martian-sunset]

Mr. Swartz was a "genius" who didn't understand the difference between freedom and theft.

[@chansowping1811]

Aaron thank you for your fight to make knowledge free for all.never forgotten in our hearts🙏🙏🙏❤

[@Awakenbeing]

When I try to put myself into the sjoes of Aaron I began to see how distressed he would have felt from inside. The bightest mind like him could only advance the human race.

[@libra8993]

yeah but he was as strong as he was weak, he literally just quit on us in lieu of a little suffering

[@omegaswiper]

This is one or the greatest KZbin videos ever made thank you you deserve more views

[@69memnon69]

There is some irony in him starting a company that now charges exorbitant fees to access their data.

[@xbeauxyeux]

which one?

[@lilumhoho8]

@@xbeauxyeuxHe is mentioning Reddit, as recently, Reddit now charges large amount of money to access their API

[@abukariba]

Stuff like this really itches me wrong...

[@matthewgregg3979]

When did he create reddit? I missed that part.

[@sciencecreatedus9475]

He didn't, he created a company which "merged" with reddit

[@neromax100]

God.. How innocence is a difficult trait to live by today RIP You meant well We were just not ready for you yet

[@btk2034]

Just got off listening to a special episode of Behind the Bastards on Aaron. Truly a hero for fighting for free information.

[@iloveplayingpr]

No good deed goes unpunished.

[@TransgirlsEnjoyer]

and obama whose federal prosecutors killed the aaron and who declined to fire those prosecutor is still not called out by sold out media

[@LUFFNINJA]

R.I.P. I'm saddened that this world doesn't use the same logic that this man used about information and how it should be free to share

[@shobinyad6643]

Why am I crying??? As a human who struggled for 10 years with self-hate and low self-esteem, I can vouch for the importance of access to Good and worthy content via books. Those who(websites) made Nonfiction and fiction books available for free to students and people who can't afford them hope God bless them extra.

[@rodfer5406]

Truly a tragedy; cannot be forgotten…

[@greygoose8213]

There's a full length movie made about him and his story, highly recommended: "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" 2014

[@KingSeven123]

Scary how much one really smart guy can do when he gets angry.

[@user-ke8vk8bo4j]

The most tragic part is freak users, powermods, and excessive rules have destroyed reddit.

[@ConstantBit9]

At least he's free from all the pain and sadness...

[@BhargavSushant]

How come the punishment of wirefraud is multiple times more than serious crimes , like rape and murder?

[@t.s5806]

Because money has more value than human life apparently

[@A-Grat-A]

Silk Road guy facilitated to move weapons and substances needed for rape and murder.

[@bhoolgaya869]

Just On recommend list and This channel Is Diamond In Yt I don't know you 13 min ago but Now I just Thank You for your Knowledgeable Videos .

[@sergi5816]

It was the US state and judicial system who destroyed him, not downloading too much.

[@me5ng3]

Comparing Aaron to a drug trafficking enabler such as Ulrich is really low of you.

[@Newsthink]

I understand the anger; the comparison was more about whether there was government overreach in both situations which were related to internet crimes

[@briancrawford8751]

@@Newsthink The comparison was unnecessary and seemed to be done in obliviously bad taste. Why not compare him to weev while you're at it?

[@krellin]

thats a foolish way to try and bring change to things you do not like and a sure way to ruin your life (which is what he ultimately did)

[@MrFujinko]

Yes, it's a cautionary tale.

[@RoIIingStoned]

No good deed goes unpunished

[@AnaEdigaryan]

Thank you for the video and the question you're raising. But for me this story, especially the way it ended begins more than a one case study. What would the question and consequently the answer be if after being released Aaron was headhanted by tech companies and invested into as a key talent (not that he'd want to, but try to get the point) , what would the question be if he lived happily ever after? What about those who are less visible and have no back up? We are under impression that justice system ende when the judge announces the verdict, sentencing a person to months, years, decades of inhumane conditions. Without a chance in some cases to ever get a fulfilled life, in many cases at a risk of getting back there. Justice should end when every single person gets a chance for a full and complete rehabilitation. Chance of leaving fascinating life. That's how it should be in my opinion. Until then the society is failing every one out (or rather in) 'there'.

[@lc285]

Thank you for sharing this important story.

[@shadbakht]

His ex-girlfriend ratted him out. Leaked his manifesto as written by him.

[@jhevier]

I wish reddit was still as good as it was in the last decade but i am thank ful that it even exists

[@jerrymiller9039]

Reddit is a heavily censored echo chamber

[@kathylim3191]

Everything good and organic becomes infiltrated

[@PGVladimirovich]

Circle jerk central

[@Tenchi707]

@@kathylim3191 that's the law of the universe, Utopia can't exist

[@gabrielsilvas692]

How did it use to be better? I've been using it past 5 years and it's amazing when it comes to people's lives and dark stories at least

[@FerdinandCesarano]

Swartz was a hero. Copyright laws and IP are the essence of evil.

[@cbbcbb6803]

Keep in mind that "at government expense" really means at tax payers' expense. Making it freely available to the world should include translation into every language also. "Stealing is stealing", they Say? Then why do corporate thieves seldom go to jail? Even when everyone knows what happened.

[@jonstone9741]

Even corporate murderers don't go to jail. Pacific Gas & Electric (in California) pled guilty to 82 counts of manslaughter for causing a massive fire that killed 82 people in Paradise, California. Nobody went to jail. But if a drunk driver kills one person in an auto accident, the drunk driver will go to prison.

[@cbbcbb6803]

​​@@PeterSramkaMaybe I'm wrong, but I think very few people that were responsible for the 2007/2008 financial meltdowns experienced any jail time. I'm not a researcher. Don't know how to do it. I just suffer from whatever bad things happen with the economy, like most people. I am nonetheless presumptuous (maybe egotistical) enough to speak (write) what I feel. And it felt bad and it was scary to boot. It is like the following. Patient: Oh doctor, my knee hurts. Do something. Doctor: That's what I hate about you patients. You complain, but, never have any solutions. Yeally? That, in my opinion is the predicament we are all in.

[@calicoesblue4703]

So much potential lost, a great mind of tomorrow gone because of an incompetent prosecutor.

[@PeterSramka]

He broke the law. They offered him a very lenient deal: 6 months in a minimum security prison. He refused. No one is above the law. The prosecutor was not incompetent.

[@libra8993]

where do you think JSTOR, Elsivir & the others acquire the research papers to begin with?! a lot of the time that research is funded by tax exempt charitable/foundation contributions, federal tax dollars, a variety of other tax related subsidies and contributions, the tuition paid by you, the people, the student federal aid paid by you the people and most importantly, the time, money & intellectual labor of your students~! these publishing companies don't have a right to this information, YOU DO. what's even more shocking is that several of these companies are based IN ''THE CITY OF" LONDON

[@MrFujinko]

No one is forcing researchers to hand over the rights to their work. They do it out of free will.

[@masterblue1]

To be fair, you can also email the authors of the paper you want and 99% of the time they'll be glad to send you a copy

[@jayantbhatt007]

Goverment should protect people like him. 😢

[@matimbabaloyi2916]

Why should information come at a price it just isn't fair to those that don't have money.

[@frolie1454]

Every clip of Aaron, he really cared about spreading information and helping people learn. It makes me sick to my stomach what happened to him. He's so one of a kind, and they knew, and they killed him.

[@frolie1454]

Let's not compare Ross Ulbricht to Aaron either, he ordered hits on people and facilitated illicit drug trade leading to the deaths of many. He was scum interested in personal gain, Aaron is a hero who was fighting with his entire being to make positive change in the world.

[@minimino9878]

“Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, an whether you take documents, data or dollars" - Carmen Ortiz But why wont you criticize those criminals who stole things but didint get arrested because they didint hit the maximum amount thy could steal?

[@alephanull1953]

Creative Commons. Markdwon. RSS. Reddit. This guy pioneered the FOSS Movement

[@Joybuzzard]

DA Carmen Ortiz should be charged with murder, or at least jailed for her blatant abuses of authority. Not just in the Schwartz case, this is the same DA in charge of a case where a lawyer who came forward with information on fraud committed a bank she worked for was charged with the crimes she reported on and treated the bank who committed those crimes as the 'victim'. There's cases she was involved with where the prosecutors moved forward on charges from an 'informant' but never spoke to the alleged victim until cross-examination when the alleged victims were testifying for the defense. That's how corrupt her office was when she was DA. But she never faced any consequences for the terrible things she did to people, the completely manufactured charges with zero evidence she managed to get indictments for by snowing the jury with wierd emotional pressure and random factoids unrelated to the case.

[@YayoLife]

What a universal hero.

[@an742_]

the documentary goes into so much more depth I recommend everyone watch it

[@youonlyliveonce777]

Where is it

[@an742_]

@@youonlyliveonce777 "the internet's own boy" here on yt

[@TheRealKitWalker]

I cry everytime I see his story. 😢 World is a bad bad place 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@monkeyjshow]

Always publicly publish any white paper you get your hands on

[@Endurator]

Wow I didn’t know that, rest in peace Aaron,

[@JJs_playground]

Why would you leap off your bike and run? Wouldn't make sense to pedal faster you'd definitely be able to go faster than the cop chasing you.

[@ravisingh2144]

I think he did not wanted to live. He could have done it so much better. It was not he wanted to just hack. He knew he was going to die.

[@brucewayne5916]

That idiotic attorney should be punished !!!!

[@alqamahasnain6428]

The evilness of the people in power makes me nauseated. Carmen M Ortiz is what's wrong with the world.

[@daviddoch4872]

Entitled people with no economic understanding of costs or sacrifices involved. When intelligence exceeds a young man's real world experience this happens

[@robkino6137]

And your intelligence doesn't even exceed the digits on your hand, subhuman.

[@sidu1237]

Stealing data of any organization without legal permission is crime....

[@93kpakpigssurrender44]

🤡🤡🤡

[@robkino6137]

Single digit IQ post.

[@MrSaxobeat020]

Yeah, the people who support this won't even give their own phone to someone for 1 hour, won't put their phone number online cause they're scared.

[@pro-hz7kx]

@@MrSaxobeat020 there’s a difference between between private/personal information which someone can use against you and research papers, if you want to be fair you should compare handing over to someone one of your books for example.

[@monkeyjshow]

He's absolutely right. Take it all!!! Libgen lives on

[@galaxy1234]

Such a genius, who helped creating reddit and creative commons, yet he had to die of depression. He could have pursued internet activism(not breaking the laws). But depression makes people blind. And eventually kills them.

[@cleanlysniping3496]

Horrible, the justice system is so horrbile this tragedy marks the stupidity of everything honestly just frustrating

[@Ebotoman79]

Fantastic reporting!

[@ramizr]

the video was really well produced and i love the awareness you spread however I want to mention that it feel really bad when you're mentioning both Aaron and Ross Ulbricht in same sentence saying "The computer skills of Aaron Swartz and Ross Ulbricht played a huge role in their attempt to change the world". What Aaron did for the internet is something entirely different from Ross's work and even though two cases might look similar but they're entirely different from ideological point of view.

[@Priya_kulkarni]

Absolutely brilliant video might be the best in the year

[@GerhardBothaWFF]

Freedom includes the freedom to not share knowledge. I support open source etc, but this idea that it is your "right" to have access to other people's knowledge is just wrong. I'm not talking about dickheads trying to do stuff like patent a wheelbarrow. People have a right to create, a freedom to share, and a privilege to have free access to the knowledge earned by others. This dude deserves to be in jail

[@christopherhorn5274]

The closed nature of academic research should be a crime.

[@thepapervigilante2208]

Cloning data not classified is no stealing by any definition

[@charlesdegaulle1943]

Wow! The journalism at its best. Pulitzer!

[@im7254]

he would've never been ok with reddit censorship, promotion of centralized malware like eth and nfts, and so on. they are light years from ethics or logic

[@gmontenegro9711]

Downloading too much? He was giving people free access to education.

[@thedudewithvideos4899]

US Govt, US police, US Courts, US Feds what a Joke they are !!!

[@shirin8402]

I'm so sad, really, too much...