Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by DeusExMachina » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 9:07 AM UTC

Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder
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Post by mysticlabs » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 10:59 AM UTC

Distasteful.

There would be no Reddit without Aaron.

RIP.

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Post by brodouevencode » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:04 AM UTC

Can we all agree reddit is effectively run from the top down, that moderation at the subreddit level is a joke, that they are even more two faced than Twitter, and that (worse) they’re doing a terrible job of covering it up?

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Post by sebmellen » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:07 AM UTC

Reddit is very clearly not in favour of free speech: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/reddit-bans-thedonald-and-....

Aaron Swartz was very clearly in favour of free speech: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/becausewecan.

I think the reasons for this are self-evident.

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Post by 082349872349872 » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:08 AM UTC

As they say in the Belt, "inyalowda tili tenya fit detim fo bang fit xitim" (They own the past to control the present).

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Post by losvedir » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:08 AM UTC

I thought it really was founded by those two, and written in Lisp at that. Then YC hooked them up with Swartz and his big thing was rewriting in python. (And maybe there was some contention about this? I forget, but I seem to recall some drama at the time about his contributions.)

It was a long time ago, though, so I might be misremembering. In any case, I'm fairly certain Swartz did join after the fact, but I'm not sure if he joined with the title of co-founder or not.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:10 AM UTC

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Post by vbezhenar » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:13 AM UTC

If someone's not aware about Aaron's story, I suggest to read Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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Post by cryptica » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:14 AM UTC

Most of the elites are weak, cowardly and selfish hypocrites. There is no way they'll be able to stop the upcoming revolution. They'll fall like dominoes the minute the tension starts to rise...

If you're an elite and you have any strength at all, you'd better start throwing your buddies under the bus soon. It's going to be you or them. They're so weak and so selfish, you don't have much time left before they start to crack.

If there is any dirt at all, it will all come out. Always has, always will. There are too many people in the world. You can never control all of them.

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Post by ObsoleteNerd » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 11:16 AM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #8

If someone's not aware about Aaron's story, I suggest to read Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

And/or watch the documentary, which you can watch legally and free on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaro...