Who is this dude? - The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) Discussion

[–] kyo_fight 10 years ago

He is the dude who makes RSS & Reddit. He's also in Internet Hall of Fame.

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[–] robatmuskoka 10 years ago

looks and says RSS & Reddit ?????

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[–] PenguinCat 10 years ago

http://www.reddit.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

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[–] The_Real_Review 10 years ago

Aaaron did not make RSS, he was one of 13 members (7%) of the RSS 1.0 Working Group. He came in after much of it was done and left while there was still much left to do.

Aaron joined Reddit six months after it was founded, worked on Reddit for a few months and got fired.

He is an over-hyped urban legend.

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[–] borasisi 10 years ago

You honestly think that's all? It's not about Reddit or Rss or anything. And it never has been. It's about his political activities.
He was more like an Internet activist than a developer. If you think he's hyped just because you don't think he deserves some credit for those websites, then you just can't see the point.

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[–] The_Real_Review 10 years ago

I don't like misinformation let alone hype. He was a political bandwagon activist and an emotional thinker. I have never seen more BS hype to an online persona in my life. Millions of people were attached to the "causes" he was an they are not getting hyped like this.

What I honestly think is those trying to hype him are using his loose affiliations with Reddit and RSS to inflate his importance. There is a reason most people have never heard of him because he was nothing special.

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[–] robatmuskoka 10 years ago

I'll bw watching this movie to see who is and why he was prosecuted/persecuted.

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[–] MightyMolecule 10 years ago

the archetype martyr for an outdated, monopolistic global copyright empire and the aggressive, foot soldier legal industry that protects it.

he was to be made an example of, another human chilling effect, and in turn the entire copyright prosecution process was...

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[–] doctorbunsen 9 years ago

man. you sound like a nazi. and an american one. even worse

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[–] MightyMolecule 9 years ago

Actually the exact opposite. I know my post, although so long ago, ends on an ellipsis cliffhanger, it states an objective observation. So much so, in fact, Jstor is ironically pursuing legal copyright action against a similar issue currently. Read.

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[–] paracet-2 10 years ago

@mandelkubb
You could have answered your own question, by simply googling it. And the answer you will get now and hopefully in the future, was Aaron Swartz working/fighting for. And it was sharing published information openly. So the day you understand you dont need that enormous ego boost by trolling the internet. And start using the internet to do something good, Remember to give Aaron Swartz a nod. Because January 11, 2013. Humanity lost a good guy.

Rest in peace Aaron Swartz

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[–] mandelkubb 10 years ago

i wanted YOUR opinions, not the ones from google. :)

(so thanks everyone for replying)

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[–] b-l-ramsay 10 years ago

Asking who a person is is a fact, not an opinion. A better question would have been "What do you think of Aaron Swartz?" But that would require you to know who the person is first and something about their life to have any context.

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[–] mandelkubb 10 years ago

imdb is a community with opinions and facts. what i mean is, i wanted to know who this person is as well as the imdb users reactions/opinions. but to be honest, i was mostly annoyed that there was no description on the front page!

it's sad to see people being rude for this useless reason, but perhaps you just have a bad day today. anyway, i think that if there's something you don't like you should just ignore it. since my thread/question doesn't really seem to be a threat to the existence of humanity, let's just drop it here. :)

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[–] b-l-ramsay 10 years ago

Sure, no problem. Consider it dropped. But just for clarity, I don't think others pointing out that your question seemed odd or just seemed like someone who didn't want to bother searching the internet for themselves as rude per say. You want to see rude, go check out a few of the other threads for this documentary.

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[–] jedcohelo 10 years ago

God I hate when that happens.

I ask in a forum a thing (to get different takes on it) and there's ALWAYS that one guy that sais "Google it"
and another other guy who gives you a WIKIPEDIA LINK.

Those two categories of people should get 35 years to life.

Not Aaron Swartz.

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[–] torydude 10 years ago

Can't decide if trolling or just lazy.

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[–] jedcohelo 10 years ago

No, I understand the dude.

He's asking a questions..and you people are being lazy by saying " look it up."

Well, he's asking, cause maybe someone "he thought" knew seomthing MORE specific.

For example, If I ask someone something about, say a writer, "Bret Easton Ellis".

An affectionadom will know more things about him, and more cool trivia, than a one page of wikipedia.
The affectionado, will have picked up bits and pieces here adn there during the years, and his view on the writer will be more salicious and more informative..than a WIKIPEDIA one page thingy.

That's why he asked!

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[–] b-l-ramsay 10 years ago

Oh come on! LOL That argument makes no sense, honestly. To ask someone specifically about say that writer you mentioned, "Bret Easton Ellis". For you or anyone else to ask it would be because you have an interest in them and also are interested in getting other peoples opinions, knowledge on, list of favorite books etc. This premise implies that you already know SOMETHING about the author that sparked said interest. Asking "Who is this dude" and "What..." does nothing so much as conveys a total lack of any knowledge and does not a dialogue or conversation make. All in all, the approach was lackluster and appeared to be nothing but laziness, end of story.

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[–] Cypherven 10 years ago

A true activist unlike Snowden and Assange.

A guy that wasn't fighting the system because of his ego or looking for notoriety.

He wasn't looking for fame, he believed he could improve the system from the inside, but he was also naive, he wasn't aware that he was facing a corporate structure of trillions of dollars, the system crushed him and he payed with his life.

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