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TODAY IS AARON SWARTZ REMEMBRANCE DAY

For the general public he was seen as just another hacktivist along with various hacktivist groups that were active around the time like lulzsec and anonymous. But for the wider internet community, he represents something much much more, especially post 2020 where we are all questioning many aspect of governance that we take for granted as the normal state of the world.

In November the eight of 1986 Aaron Swartz was born. While his early childhood was like any other kid, he showed early spark of someone who would be very consequential to internet culture.

One of his first website to be recognized by the public is "The Info Network" a user generated encyclopedia, created at the age of 12 years old which won the ArsDigita Prize.

But later on he was accepted into Y Combinator's founder program on a startup called infogami. While infogami failed to get further funding, his contribution to the wider Y Combinator, got him in touch with another fellow co-founder to work together on this small but potentially important firm known as Reddit.

If you are from Reddit or Hackernews, you will be very familiar with how the next few years will go for Arron as well and so no further introduction will be needed. (But you can follow further in his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz)

However what will be consequential to the wider public is his work as an tech activist fighting for the same rights and values that digital natives in the wider internet culture would fight for.

Especially in the realms of copyright laws and the wider debate on digital access and freedom.

This includes writing Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, as well as filing a FOIA request to find out how Chelsea Mannings was treated after she was detained for her alleged role in the WikiLeaks leaks. In addition to to leaking PACER digital court records to improve public access, which had him investigated by the FBI for potential copyright infringements. And most importantly to rally the internet against Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

However it was tragically his efforts to push for open access to academic journals (much of which was publicly funded research) that may have costed him his life at 2008-12-13.

Eight years later, as we emerge from the global pandemic, it is about time we celebrate his life and reflect on his his short time with us. As well as reflecting on how his actions had inspired countless digital natives current and in the future to continuously push and fight for the right for information to be free and transparent.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7AG-fy-vK3w

**TODAY IS AARON SWARTZ REMEMBRANCE DAY** For the general public he was seen as just another hacktivist along with various hacktivist groups that were active around the time like lulzsec and anonymous. But for the wider internet community, he represents something much much more, especially post 2020 where we are all questioning many aspect of governance that we take for granted as the normal state of the world. In November the eight of 1986 Aaron Swartz was born. While his early childhood was like any other kid, he showed early spark of someone who would be very consequential to internet culture. One of his first website to be recognized by the public is "The Info Network" a user generated encyclopedia, created at the age of 12 years old which won the ArsDigita Prize. But later on he was accepted into Y Combinator's founder program on a startup called infogami. While infogami failed to get further funding, his contribution to the wider Y Combinator, got him in touch with another fellow co-founder to work together on this small but potentially important firm known as Reddit. If you are from Reddit or Hackernews, you will be very familiar with how the next few years will go for Arron as well and so no further introduction will be needed. (But you can follow further in his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz) However what will be consequential to the wider public is his work as an tech activist fighting for the same rights and values that digital natives in the wider internet culture would fight for. Especially in the realms of copyright laws and the wider debate on digital access and freedom. This includes writing Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, as well as filing a FOIA request to find out how Chelsea Mannings was treated after she was detained for her alleged role in the WikiLeaks leaks. In addition to to leaking PACER digital court records to improve public access, which had him investigated by the FBI for potential copyright infringements. And most importantly to rally the internet against Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). However it was tragically his efforts to push for open access to academic journals (much of which was publicly funded research) that may have costed him his life at 2008-12-13. Eight years later, as we emerge from the global pandemic, it is about time we celebrate his life and reflect on his his short time with us. As well as reflecting on how his actions had inspired countless digital natives current and in the future to continuously push and fight for the right for information to be free and transparent. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7AG-fy-vK3w

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[–] • 5 pts

I member.

That's when Steve "soycuck" Huffman and Alexis "Oil Drilling" Ohanian with the help of jew-owned Condé Nast turned reddit into faggit.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

You are referring to the Newhouse family. The seventh largest media ownership family in the world at one time and of course Jewish.

Yes they ruined Reddit in the classic method number one.

  1. They introduced moderators. Reddit had risen to prominence because it was voted on by the viewers of articles. This led to a huge number of articles being exposed to millions and millions of people that told truth people didn't ever know before. This meant that Reddit was a focal point for dissemination of information instantly to millions of people that otherwise would have been hidden in the back corners of the internet. So the first thing that the family that owned the cond and asked Media group did was they introduced quote moderators. These moderators would override the votes of people on Reddit who raised things to the top and they began to subversively hide and otherwise remove important articles particularly about the pharmaceutical industry and other hidden irregularities in the world.

  2. Then they proceeded to divide Reddit into smaller subreddits. the real reason the Reddit had been such a success was for the first time Republicans and Democrats liberals and conservatives and all other false divisions among Americans and world readers had been removed and everyone was exposed to the same information. By subdividing Reddit into things that were more conservative and liberal subreddits you got the same division and the same lack of information sharing that you had had in regular media. Liberals listen to what they wanted to hear in their liberal subreddits which were highly edited and prevented them from learning things that conservatives knew and conservatives had the same thing happen to them.

Thus the biggest destruction of Reddit I would argue was not that the moderators tanked stories but actually that the people were no longer unified in their exposure to information which showed the dastardly and repulsive effects of many large groups in America and around the world controlling information and distorting facts and creating huge profit centers and things like the medical industry.

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[–] • 1 pt

Reddit was always just a way to direct traffic to the advance publications rags that were hitting a rough patch due to the internet existing. Magazine subscriptions were down and web traffic to their sites was also floundering, so reddit was a way to drive web traffic their way. It was rigged from day one.

[–] • 2 pts

Not day one.

Reddit was an answer to Digg selling out to corporations buying spots on their front page.

[–] • 1 pt

LMAO by 2009 reddit was already pussy deep in that. The founders were basically talking to themselves via sock puppets, to make it look like the site had real human traffic. Bot and AI commentary wasn't sophisticated enough until ~2016-2017.