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Zuck should be put on suicide watch. He surely feels even worse than Swartz about what he has done.
That implies he has morals and a conscience. The rich have none.
I genuinely believe that if he was still around he’d of ended up a proponent for federated social media. I’m pretty sure he was the driving force behind opening it’s source, and it wasn’t until four years after his death that it was closed off again.
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Fuck meta and a BIG FUCK OFF to AI and all the companies slurping up ai slop “tech” to implement it in their rubbish software, apps, white goods, appliances… Fuck. It’s just infected every conceivable facet of our lives and no one is objecting it, it’s like everyone suddenly forgot about how many engineers spoke out about the dangers!
I am getting so sick of this fucked up world.
Rest in power, Aaron. 🫡
Eat the rich.
It’s Luigi time!
There is a very good documentary about Aaron’s life: The Internet’s Own Boy
Its license is Creative Commons, so it’s on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc
Behind the bastards had a great episode on Swartz. It was their annual Christmas non bastard episode
Unfortunately I can’t listen to podcasts. If I only listen to something without visual stimulation my mind start to think about unrelated things, and I just can’t follow what they speak about, I loose track after a while.
Before podcasts there were radio talk shows, I hated them similarly, and I tuned to another station where they were playing music.
I only listen to them while driving
I also can’t listen to podcasts but mostly because I’m quite deaf and I understand 70% of speech through lip-reading ☹️
I can only listen to podcasts and I really dislike the trend of everything being videos. Especially when it’s about how to do some technical thing and you have to watch someone using a terminal or doing a physical repair… I literally CANNOT. I can’t attend to the visuals. Just zone out. I mostly listen to TV/movies. When I was a kid you could get TV stations on the radio at night and I was totally happy to just listen to them.
So you enjoy your half of the media and I’ll enjoy my half. :)
The movie is on CC? Doing Aaron proud.
Important to note Aaron was helping democratize information while companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft just centralize, twist and redact information to monetize access to a dumbed down and censored version of it.
Is it safe to assume that every single author (apart from the ones that cannot prove their works were in any of those archives at the time) can sue meta for plagiarism and theft?
plagiarism is an academic crime, not a civil tort.
It’s a copyright violation to use someone’s work without permission. (Regardless of your feelings about copyright or intellectual property)
plagiarism is neither a civil tort nor a criminal offense.
Back when I worked as a designer, using work without paying for usage rights leads to exposure of being civilly sued for copyright violations.
You’re wrong. Confidently wrong.
if you were sued civilly for copyright violations, that’s not plagiarism. That’s copyright infringement. plagiarism is something else.
Plagiarism is an infringement against copyright.
if I plagiarize The Bible, that has nothing to do with copyright. it’s still plagiarism.
no it’s not. it’s an academic crime.
You can but you won’t win unless you can prove anything, so good luck with that.
Now we need something like nightshade for text.
That’s a far harder problem than it sounds unfortunately.
Yes. I see no feasible solution to this, without impacting the reader experience.
Even if you can, you’re fighting against a company that has annual revenue similar to some country’s GDP.
No company should be allowed to get this big.
*unless it’s product is collectively owned by the public and for the public as a civil service.
It’s possibly classed as fair use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc.
This is like the worst example possible, considering Aaron himself was rich, which should tell you the obvious, that being rich was never a sole differentiator.
But that might be too disruptive to the current echo chamber.
You need to be “i own several politicians” level of rich before it helps
Aaron himself was rich, which should tell you the obvious, that being rich was never a sole differentiator.
you must be rich, white, and not too disruptive
I see this post and think “progress toward the abolition of intellectual property”. I’m sure Aaron would agree.
Tbh I just couldn’t think of a good title. Maybe “Laws don’t matter if its a company doing it”?
Meta hoards the commons like a dragon, pillaging open archives to train its soulless algorithms, while Aaron Swartz—a true steward of knowledge—was hunted down for daring to share.
One gets a slap on the wrist, the other gets a noose of legal threats. Justice? No, this is corporate feudalism, where the lords rewrite the rules and the serfs pay with their lives.
Aaron wanted liberation; Meta wants monopoly. The system rewards the parasite and punishes the visionary. Remember that next time you scroll through their ad-soaked wasteland.
They know that liberation is a threat to them.
He was murdered. He did not commit suicide.
The Schwartz wasn’t strong with him.
Suck my Schwartz.
Crazy idea:
If copyright was invented to prevent printers from scooping authors’ work and out-competing them for sales…
Maybe copyright should only apply if you’re trying to compete with the author?
So like, not if you’re just a lowly individual trying to keep up with the references all of society is making, or understand the world you live in.
LotR should have entered the public domain in 2023.
Instead we got the Rings of Power.
If we had the political power to fight Disney, then we could enact a UBI so everyone can get free art all the time.
out-competing them for sales…
Boy that is a really mental gymnastics way of saying “profiting from someone else’s work”.
who da fuck disliked the post?
Probably the same person that snitched on Luigi.
I would also snitch on a murderer tbh.
Unqualifiedly?
Any discussion/advice community that allows low-effort meme slop will inevitably become choked out by it. I understand I am in the minority and the mods like having the memes, but eventually we’ll need /c/piracydiscussion if content of this formatting is permitted.
Obviously 99% of people here would agree that Aaron Swarts’ story is a tragedy. But simple low-hanging fruit content is not what I want this place to have. And like it not not this community is likely to become the single biggest place to discuss piracy as Reddit inevitably cracks down on it.
Shoo go back to being poorly photographed in forest settings.
I don’t think the post is a meme nor low effort content
Honestly curious what kind of content you believe requires less effort to post than an image macro?
Memes keep us going during dey times…
But yeah once we have sufficient amount and quality of discussions, threat actoes will use memw to suppress that.
