This sentence from the linked article (which was written in 2012, mind you) really hits hard 9 years later-
Striking at the nerve center of the military-corporate-pharmaco-porno complex is an ethical duty not a crime, one of few available means to defend constitutional law.
I find it interesting that people always talk who killed X, but never why, the latter almost always being far more important. In this case, I believe Swartz was killed to complete the takeover of Reddit.
Reddit had already been sold to Conde Nast, so your belief isn't based on factual evidence.
I find it more interesting when handshake accounts pop onto threads and try to steer the conversation from MIT Satanic Child Porn Rings to the takeover of Reddit.
You can be a problematic co founder even after the sale. There's also the angle of what he knew versus what he was interfering with. Reddit was the lone survivor in a lucrative space. I think those questions are valid even if you disagree with his hypothesis.
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This sentence from the linked article (which was written in 2012, mind you) really hits hard 9 years later-
Striking at the nerve center of the military-corporate-pharmaco-porno complex is an ethical duty not a crime, one of few available means to defend constitutional law.
I find it interesting that people always talk who killed X, but never why, the latter almost always being far more important.
In this case, I believe Swartz was killed to complete the takeover of Reddit.
Reddit had already been sold to Conde Nast, so your belief isn't based on factual evidence.
I find it more interesting when handshake accounts pop onto threads and try to steer the conversation from MIT Satanic Child Porn Rings to the takeover of Reddit.
You can be a problematic co founder even after the sale. There's also the angle of what he knew versus what he was interfering with. Reddit was the lone survivor in a lucrative space. I think those questions are valid even if you disagree with his hypothesis.
So was it the MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring that took over Reddit?
Aaron Swartz was killed because of the information he hacked out of the MIT computers.