[paulv]

Please don't presume to know what would or wouldn't make Aaron Swartz happy.

[kabirgoel]

While OP could have worded their comment better, this is exactly the kind of thing that Swartz explicitly aligned himself against. [1]

It would be incredibly surprising for Swartz to have supported the kind of bait-and-switch tactics Reddit is employing here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto

[0xcde4c3db]

Who's presuming? Swartz was remarkably vocal about his aspirations for the internet, and I definitely don't remember hearing him say that the future we ought to fight for is one where APIs wrapping user-generated content are only accessible to institutions with deep pockets.

[iguana_lawyer]

We know precisely what Aaron Swartz believed because he gave his life for it

[srge]

r/gatekeeping