They got the wrong reddit founder .
(not that I wish that on spez even tho he is bad I don't think he is that bad )
Eh mister "I will own slaves after the apocalypse" probably doesn't deserve the grace
Think I'm gonna be taking the solidarity approach pretty soon. Humanity is truly a cancer.
I never heard of this guy before today. What a goat RIP AARON SCHWARTZ
There's a good behind the bastards episode on him (a good guy holiday episode; he's not a bastard)
Please don’t spread misinformation.
Edit: Why is anyone downvoting this? The text is inaccurate and should not be posted.
It is not true that he was sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR. It is true that he killed himself.
After googling it it seems he was charged and those were the estimate of years if convicted so
Looks likely he would have been convicted, especially considering the whole suicide thing??
Basically the same thing, calling it misinformation implies its creating a perception of the incident that is unwarranted, where I would disagree that the distinction has any merit
I am genuinely disappointed that on an ostensibly science-related message board I see comments along the lines “this isn’t actually true, but it kinda-sorta is, therefore, inaccurate claims somehow aren't misinformation”. If all kinds of counter-factual things were true, then all kinds of things would be true: what is the point of this hand-waving to defend something that is riddled with untruths? Also, with whom did he purportedly share these documents? In 22 words, this person got no fewer than two things wrong and you are carrying water for what reason?
Law is not science, it's politics. This is a political distinction, not a matter of the laws of reality
Their comment wasn't a dissertation, i didn't expect extreme precision, I'm defending the spirit in which I believe that comment was posted, because I agree with it, simple as