Mark Zuckerberg doesn't get enough credit for being one of the most garbage humans to ever exist. He's done so much damage to the human collective, and yet gets to skate and not be blamed. Enjoy your chunk of Hawaii dickhead.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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“...but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
The rules aren't real. Laws are made up.
Oh they're real. They're just not objective. The only thing that defines reality is how much money you have. Then you get to say what actually happened.
If you got enough money, you didn't rape a person, they're just "mentally unstable and making libellous claims".
If you haven't got enough money, you didn't simply make a mistake, you ALMOST DESTROYED THE FABRIC OF CIVILIZED SOCIETY, forced labour, 200 years.
I mean...
Remember to incorporate before doing anything illegal
"Took his life"
It's up to the middle class to start making things right. Slaughter these motherfuckers who hold seats at the table of the above-the-law elites. Their boots crush our necks with more pressure Every. Single. Day.... It's high-time to fuck some motherfuckers up so we don't have more stories like Aaron.
I was a very early Reddit user and remember when all this went down. If he could only see what Reddit has been slowly morphed into... literally the complete opposite of what the founder envisioned.
Yea pretty much. The last few years have radicalized me HARD, fuck the capitalists and the fascists that defend it, the only good capitalist is a dead capitalist.
I despise meta and the fact they're not being punished for this.
He didn't just download stuff, he installed a server on their network to do it. A bit different.
His punishment was still beyond the pale.
He also had every legal right to download those articles
Its fair to note he was never sentenced.
He installed a server on facebook’s network?
Aaron broke open a cabinet and installed a server at a secure site on located on a campus. He was never sentenced, though.
On a university network.
I remember the story from years ago. This sounds about right. Other commenter made it sound like he installed the server on meta’s network (which would have still just been Facebook at the time.)
Aah, yes BUUUUT, Aaron did it to help his fellow humans, whereas Yuckerberg is doing it to enrich billionaires, it's not comparable!
Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is justified. The disadvantaged company of his needed that material.
One should also note that Aaron did it to share scientific knowledge, meta did it to generate more profit
update based on comments: perhaps better to say probably share and and/or gain access to scientific data for non profit research purposes
And that JSTOR didn't want sue him, it was the DA pursuing it. Afaik JSTOR even published the articles in question for free 3 months after he downloaded them, basically agreeing with his criticism.
The documentary indicates it's unclear why he did it. It could have been to share, it could have been for his own research. His outlook on data was that it should be freely available to all but in the case the prosecutors assumed his motives. We don't actually know what he intended with the data. It's important to remember that. Because that small detail is enough to elevate the injustice of his death. He was destroyed for downloading too much information that should have been freely available in the first place.
Yes that was an interpretation on my part given his perspective on making such information publicly available, hard to imagine he would be doing anything else with it. Nevertheless, updated my comment.
Fuck Meta. Reddit is doing it to itself with Google's help. That's even more of a slap to his face than facebook.
There's also a decent case to be made that he wasn't planning on sharing it at all. He might have just been using the articles, which he had permission to access, to do research.
RIP Aaron.
Wasn't he also a bisexual icon?
RIP, Aaron.
I watched this and I'm just saddened by it. Especially the SOPA stuff. I can't see modern social media reacting the same way they did to stop the legislation today. All of the major town squares have been consumed by capital. Reddit is public, Facebook is a mess, tiktok has bent the knee, Twitter is...X.
He was so right in his digital advocacy about spying and privacy.
We failed him. What would he say about the world now with AI and divided opinions.
I kept wondering how we got here. His destruction and death feels like the missing piece of the puzzle.
The unifying voice we needed
Imagine a world where he was still here and became the antibroligarch.
Not like he would have been some kind of leftist folk hero giving up all his wealth or anything. Literally just one honest voice in the tech industry willing to acknowledge reality, and the ridiculous double standard for expectation of privacy for anyone who isn't part of the inner circle of elites (technocrat or otherwise).
Pretend the public has no expectation of privacy or ownership of their own data, and that it's for their own good and safety. If anyone protests just pretend they're unpatriotic and/or standing in the way of progress.
Meanwhile, refuse to hand over files that were collected on the tax payer's dime bc they implicate you and likely many of your friends in some pretty horrific crimes.
And most importantly, whenever in doubt, fall back on that old talking point that an invasion of your privacy is necessary for our children's safety. We need invasive public surveillance to protect our children. We shouldn't try to regulate or limit surveillance technology bc it can be used to find missing children. We shouldn't be asking so many questions about what they're doing bc they're focused on the bigger picture of protecting our children while also apparently protecting their rich friends.
Who exactly are We protecting our children from by allowing this network of elites to have unlimited access to all of our data and information with no accountability or public oversight?
Has anyone noticed that Aaron looks a lot like John Mulaney?
Well, it's his own fault for not being a billionaire!
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.
What does that even mean? Aaron Swartz cowrote creative commons which was to allow for sharing some rights, not all rights. Aaron would not have stood for the scalping of people's work to create profit driven AI models. Do you just make things up without having any knowledge on the subject?
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.
Hamburger time for Mark.