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Aaron swartz was a free speech absolutist. Not so sure he would have been on the side you want him to be on.
Aside from the whole r/jailbait grossness.
I bet he'd be chillin on Twitter with the rest of his free speech absolutist homies.
His death was the start of the split of the internet ideology. There's a decent chance he would've wound up like a lot of us did, but yes there's a chance he would've wound up like the technofascist side.
Most realistically though he'd probably have wound up like the peers he liked like Doctrow.