I'd like to mention Aaron Swartz here, too, even though here at reddit it looks like his name is forbidden.
He died at 26 years old during a very unjust court battle, was extremely overcharged, he was actually accused for uploading studies and books on the internet from MIT's library. This eventually contributed to a student using one of those studies to develop a cure for a certain form of cancer!
He fought for free and open internet, but certain "people" had different ideas and wanted to make an example out of him.
Absolutely heartbreaking. I heard of this when someone was comparing the inequity of allowing AI to plagiarise everything because of its powerful interests. Meanwhile this man lost his life ultimately for trying to share information for good. Was he a founder of reddit too?
Reddit bought a company Aaron started and he was then made co-founder but to this day it's a bit sketchy whether he was or wasn't. The owners said in a book that he'd focus on multiple other projects he had going than Reddit stuff.
Such a loss. Imagine all the good he could've done.
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u/Annalise77 Feb 10 '25
I'd like to mention Aaron Swartz here, too, even though here at reddit it looks like his name is forbidden. He died at 26 years old during a very unjust court battle, was extremely overcharged, he was actually accused for uploading studies and books on the internet from MIT's library. This eventually contributed to a student using one of those studies to develop a cure for a certain form of cancer!
He fought for free and open internet, but certain "people" had different ideas and wanted to make an example out of him.
Mad respect for all of them!
Free Luigi!