ArcturianDeathTrap

Why isnt it his birthday anniversary?

capnflummox

Who the fuck is Aaron Swartz??

Hand_of_Node

My only wish is that the coward hadn't been allowed to skip out on his debt to society. There are undoubtedly "younger" people here who've only watched that propaganda movie, and weren't around to see that piece of shit in action. Well, life isn't a movie. Aaron Swartz was a scumbag who should have been shot in the face after serving 20 years in state prison.

ItsBad

You are thinking too small. This whole thing was to fake his death. Reddit was a honeypot to begin with. Reddit = 33 in Pythagorean Gematria. It's logo is orange. They have a space alien as their logo. The design with subreddits was to kill off small forums and centralize online discussion so they could manipulate it as they see fit. They probably wanted a story about how Reddit used to be a free spirited company supporting free speech that got lucky and caught on, which then became corrupted rather than a deliberately engineered scheme from the start.

Hand_of_Node

It pretty much was a free speech company in the beginning. I was there when those waves of school kids started washing up, a couple years before the Digg collapse and invasion. I forget when the subreddit thing happened, but that was later. It's true they were always complaining about not having money to maintain or upgrade the site, and that want away at some point.

You have a plausible theory, as reddit did become the central place on the internet to comment and discuss. There was plenty of manipulation among the power mods even before they started selling subreddit control and/or narratives.

Momerath

Thanks for reminding us. I believe he stumbled upon much more than research hidden behind a paywall.

cthulian_axioms

Word on the street is he found evidence implicating some big MIT muckety-mucks in Pizzagate

GreyAlien

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Improbablyanasshole

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bruddah

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