• TrudeauCastroson [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I feel like they should be paying more per thing viewed than I do as a human

    They pressured the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

      • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        Aaron Schwartz. Had some dubious libertarian-approaching ideas but he believed in total freedom of information. He downloaded and redistributed a shitload of content off JSTOR illegally because he felt that paywalling scientific studies was bad, was caught, and committed suicide when facing an unbelievably harsh sentence from a rabid DA.