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Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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[–] db2 71 points 10 months ago (12 children)

There was only one worth a damn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[–] Radicaldog 19 points 10 months ago (10 children)

The myth of Aaron Swartz continues...

He was a big proponent of free speech absolutism. He'd have been more than happy with the jailbait subs, watchpeopledie, fatpeoplehate etc. I really don't think he deserves a free pass just because Reddit wasn't enshittifying while he was around, as it was in a growth phase. It had other problems which needed resolution.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

https://web.archive.org/web/20031229025933/http:/bits.are.notabug.com/

Share Child Pornography

In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.