Never Forget

donald trump gets 10 warnings for intimidating witnesses and indefinite trial postponement for hoarding and most likely leaking classified documents. Sweet sweet justice.

Articles paid for by the public through grants btw

Look, the kid was a hero, but this is also patently false.

He was not sentenced to 35 years. The trial hadn't started. 35 years was the maximum possible sentence. He was given a plea deal for 6 months that he rejected.

We don't need to spin lies to make his story more tragic than it already is.

If I remember correctly, it wasn't even illegal since these scientific articles should have been public to begin with because they used public funds.

Shout out to Alexandra elbakyan. She continues part of aaron's work by running sci-hub and libgen, but lives safely out of reach of the american criminal "justice" system 💔

He didn't even share them as far as I know, he just downloaded them. And the trial hadn't started yet when he committed suicide.

Oil CEOs pay fines for bringing about a global climate catastrophe. Fascist politicians are given slaps on the wrist for an attempted coup d'etat. Government officials openly commit gross violations of privacy and suffer no consequences.

But a guy hacks a university network and downloads a hoard of scientific articles that should have been freely accessible to begin with and he gets 35 years in prison. I'll admit I wasn't familiar with this case before I saw this picture. Which is kind of insane in and of itself.

That's not exactly what happened.

Aaron committed suicide before his case went to trial, and so he was never convicted let alone sentenced. 35 years was never even likely; had it gone to trial there's every reason to think he'd have been acquitted outright, or at worst given a slap on the wrist. Not that he should have even been charged, of course.

i would say jstor are cunts, but actually it's the US government that were being cunts here.

He didn't transfer or share he only downloaded.

I highly recommend watching the documentary on him, Internet's own boy.

Reddit could've been so good with him at the helm...

The most infuriating thing was and still is the fact that some people justify the sentence and blame him for killing himself.

He’s probably rolling in his grave at the enshittification of reddit now too

Judicially murdered by Carmen Ortiz.

The weirdest shit about this is that JSTOR apparently has a very expansive social media presence.

They have an official Tumblr account.

I had to follow it out of morbid curiosity.

There's a reason the EU doesn't extradite their citizens to the US: the justice system is considered inhumane.

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 )

Frankly, I don't think that was enough to make Aaron commit suicide. However, having close relations like Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian completely turn sour and blame him probably did, and I'm akin to believe they know what they did given how hard they doubled down on "well, Aaron really wasn't that great of a guy" narrative.

This is like the Oliver Stone science meme kind of fact.

he didn't even share the articles did he? it was an "intent" crime.

Jesuschrist. 🤦‍♂️

Think I'm gonna be taking the solidarity approach pretty soon. Humanity is truly a cancer.

This is propaganda he got sucicided. And he didnt transfer or share scientific articles he simply downloaded them thats all. This poat is extremely damaging as its almost correct juat slightly shifting the commonly accepted reality of history. This is not the first time I've seen posts about him here doing a simmillar thing this raises the question who's trying to rewrite history and what for?

help, why does it looked photoshopped (aaron swartz)

bits are not bugs

Please don’t spread misinformation.

Edit: Why is anyone downvoting this? The text is inaccurate and should not be posted.