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Commodore64 23 points ago +23 / -0

Some of us are old enough to remember chatting with him on reddit, he would be happy to see thedonald.win

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Groupthinkgroupthink [S] 8 points ago +8 / -0

thanks pede!

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Harken_X 11 points ago +12 / -1

Had he still been alive today, how do you know that he wouldn't have just turned into another piece of shit like spez? I think a lot of these big tech pioneers start off with good intentions in the beginning, then morph into something much sinister years later once they sell out to the globalist regime.

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Groupthinkgroupthink [S] 7 points ago +9 / -2

By that same logic, you're suspect too, because someone else was corrupted?

By his actions at Stanford, he was moving information from behind a pay-wall, to being free -- those aren't the actions of a future tyrant.

Future tyrants dont end up murdered for it either, you'll notice those murders generally seem to go in one direction too.

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williammcfadden 3 points ago +3 / -0

All of social media was an open free platform. Suddenly it's not and that change is the issue here.

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Groupthinkgroupthink [S] 4 points ago +4 / -0

This guy spent a lot of his time at Stanford University downloading Stanford textbooks and reading materials to make them open source to the public, by-passing Stanford's exorbitant pay-wall.

He believed in an Open Speech Platform, free access to information for the betterment of everyone and died for that belief.

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SomeGuyOnTheInternet 5 points ago +6 / -1

Seth Rich was a democrat too, and like Seth, Aaron was murdered by the Clinton machine (Duck Duck Go Aaron Swartz Pizzagate).

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spanglevision 2 points ago +2 / -0

I've always been skeptical of the narrative that Aaron killed himself. First I had heard of this connection. Thanks.

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Groupthinkgroupthink [S] 2 points ago +5 / -3

A lot of people believed in progressive causes around that time, but those causes were fronts for what they've turned into today.

A lot of people who believed back then, are here on the Donald today because what's transpired.

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FluffiPuff 2 points ago +2 / -0

<3 God Bless Aaron Swartz and his Family <3

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lanevorocks 2 points ago +2 / -0

Aaron was a strong anti establishment guy .. Some of his ideas were really great, primarily his extreme hardcore dislike for censorship. He would never let TheDonald be censored

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

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AllTheWayTrump 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yawn with him. Odds are he would have moved to the left when the big money started pouring in.

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Groupthinkgroupthink [S] 1 point ago +2 / -1

That's not at all how university pay walls work, but, good try.

Most of the information and literature that ends up behind university pay walls has been funded by your tax dollars.

And on-top of that, they're attempting to monopolize information.

Maybe you should ride in your own helicopter sometime?

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Groupthinkgroupthink [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

It wasn't government property, what is this non sequitur?

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Groupthinkgroupthink [S] 0 points ago +1 / -1

Nah