You owe him RSS, you owe him Markdown, you owe him Creative Commons, you owe him Reddit.

He was 26, wanted to share knowledge for free and they pushed him to suicide for it.

He would be 34 by now, and I cannot imagine all the wonderful things he would have created.

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      4 years ago

      You know that ironman/inventor fetish a lot of bourgeois have? Aaron Schwartz was what a modern actual inventor/prodigy would actually be like.

      ALSO shout out to Alexandra Elbakyan for finishing the mission! She doesn't get enough credit. Every scientist should be using libgen/scihub if they aren't already.

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          4 years ago

          One of many reasons why she doesn't get enough respect in the west. All of them unjust.

          afaik

          Withholding right to withdraw since I don't know more about her than her wiki.