[archerx]

He wasn’t just some famous redditor. Aaron Swartz helped create Reddit and invented RSS.

If I put my conspiracy theory hat one and I always get piled on for this theory in other online communities but I think it could be possible. The theory is I think Aaron found some very dark stuff while exploring the MIT private networks, things that he was not supposed to see and could be very damaging to a lot people if they were exposed. The infamous Jeffery Epstein was donating a lot of money to MIT and its Media Labs. I think there is a much deeper story at play that the mainstream narrative is hiding with a “suicide”.

[kimjune01]

understatement is a kind of humor, when he said 'redditor'

[satvikpendem]

That's the joke, why do you think they put it in quotes?

[s3p]

I didn't understand it

[nylonstrung]

If he found fucked up stuff regarding crimes way worse than his on university networks don't you think he could have gotten out of the sentencing entirely by cooperating against them

Epstein was relatively restrained even in his personal email, I doubt he was using MIT administrated systems to facilitate a pedo ring

[avesi]

Have you seen how the legal system is protecting everyone associated with those crimes, despite how high profile they are?

[vagrantJin]

It's not that simple. If he did find dark stuff, and he got caught - he will have both the state murderers and the filth on his case. That's the best case scenario assuming the state isn't on the side of the filth by which case he was cooked no matter what he did. Filth does not even have come after you. They can just send you a family portrait and you'd know the hole is deep and only one way out.

[phailhaus]

Your theory is that he found "very dark stuff" that is accessible to any MIT student? Schwartz didn't "hack" anything, he connected to their student network and downloaded articles that they had access to but the public didn't.

[inigyou]

Aaron Swartz founded Reddit in the same way that Elon Musk founded Tesla, but without the money.

[ChrisRR]

No Aaron joined reddit through a merger of the company he co-founded, where he was a developer. Musk just threw money at it

[archerx]

Right with his tech skills instead of money.

[inigyou]

No, he was added later to an already existing project and claimed credit for it.

[archerx]

Ok Spez

[Quothling]

I'm not from the USA so my views are obviously biased by this. I very much doubt Epstein committed suicide, and it's been wild to watch you guys deal with it, not releasing the files, holding nobody accountable and so on. That being said, I also don't think there needs to be a big dark secret to explain why someone caught in the USA justice system would commit suicide.

It's crazy that you could face 35 years in jail for trying to free knowledge in a harmless manner. The longest anyone has been imprisoned for in my country in modern times is 26 years, 11 months and 6 days. We have a few people posed to break that record. Peter Lundin has been in prison for 25ish years, and him and Peter Madsen (the discount elon musk turned murderer who killed some poor journalist in is selfmade submarine) are contenders to people who will probably go beyond 35 years.

Not that our system is perfect. I think we're far too lenient on some crimes, but risking 35 years in jail for downloading and sharing academic knowledge... That's objectively evil.