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Thanks. Rectified the spelling.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090719140727/http://bits.are.notabug.com/
Aaron Schwartz's blog.
Scroll down to the section titled 'Share Child Pornography'.
He may have been technically talented, but he was also an idiot. Stop holding him up as some kind of hero.
It should be noted that he was 16 when he wrote that. Most 16 year old are idiots in some way and Aaron later denounced what he had written in his blog.
And kept it for 10 years without making any changes or retracting it.
Stop fucking worshipping this guy as some kind of a martyr.
Sorry to be lazy, but got a link for this? I'm not going to say I didn't have some absolute shit takes in my teens, but if that was on my personal website I would at least throw an edit up there alongside it.
I recall reading an article about it years ago but I can't seem to find it anymore. It's also not something I really want in my search history tbh..
I've already posted the link. All you need to do is scroll down and read what he's written.
I was replying to the other person - looking for follow-up to see if Swartz' opinion changed at all as his brain settled
Doesn't seem that way tbh
Shame. I can appreciate everything else he's done, but taken on its own I've got to agree that that's a trash take
I read it and it seems reasonable. Child pornography is not always children having sex, it also could be a photo of one's own child. I know at least one case that such a law was exploited by a government: https://www.imrussia.org/en/human-rights/3405-december-2021-the-ingush-case,-memorial-and-ovd-info,-yuri-dmitriev
~~PS: IDK who's Aaron Schwartz ~~
Edit: ah, yes JSTOR case. Fuck Elsevier.
PS2: look at Sartre and his mistress Simona support letter for legalizing pedophilia
And that one case means we should give free reign to child pornography? What the fuck.
Nope. Child abuse is fucking disgusting, immoral, and should not be encouraged. But the whole 'child pornography' thing is vague so it makes cases like this arise. This should be reformulated to not include just nudity and,in general, equated with a tape containing video of a crime
But that's not what Aaron said there, did he? He's pretty clear about what he's saying and what he said is fucking disgusting.
Like, let's reread it together
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.
Aaron Swartz*
Think deeply about things. Donβt just go along because thatβs the way things are or thatβs what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think. β Aaron Swartz
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. β Aaron Swartz