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Aaron Swartz was a sweet and determined young man who was treated as "acceptable collateral" for an unjust carceral system. The world is a worse place without him in it, and I will never not be furious at how he was exploited, both in life and in death.
February 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Aaron Swartz was a sweet and determined young man who was treated as "acceptable collateral" for an unjust carceral system. The world is a worse place without him in it, and I will never not be furious at how he was exploited, both in life and in death.
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Aaron Swartz is often incorrectly remembered for "illegally downloading JSTOR papers", but all he did was use a university network that was INTENTIONALLY freely accessible. Furthermore, he did not distribute the papers, nor is there evidence that he ever intended to.
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This comparison is too fair to Facebook. Not only did Swartz not actually do anything with any of the data (he literally only downloaded it), but he also did so from a computer network that was both open to the public and specifically authorized to access that data without authentication, by design.
February 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Aaron Swartz is often incorrectly remembered for "illegally downloading JSTOR papers", but all he did was use a university network that was INTENTIONALLY freely accessible. Furthermore, he did not distribute the papers, nor is there evidence that he ever intended to.
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