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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you wanna rise in the West, you better be evil.

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  • qualia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    RIP Aaron Schwartz. 🙏

    Is he related to Aaron Swartz?

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Important morale if you want to be “successful”: have no morales. And no self-respect either.

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Morale is being happy. Morals are the principals of right and wrong.

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  • Velypso@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The same aaron schwartz that was a free speech absolutist?

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was 10 years before only Nazis used that term, but I take your point.

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• thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And all he had to do was fuck over everyone who helped him get there. His co-founder and users most of all

  Peak US

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And his narcissism is rewarded with extreme wealth and power.

    Peak capitalism.

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    • blahblahblah@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, yes. The Steve Jobs model. Find someone with true talent, attach yourself to them like a lamprey, and slyly fuck them over at every turn until you are at the top with all the money.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The wrong founder died, unfortunately.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Died due to criminal prosecution for something Meta was able to get away with Scott-free.

    God damn America.

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bleak.

      But you’re not wrong. Motherfuckers.

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    • tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait was he the guy that hosted all of those academic articles and was prosecuted for it, the killed himself?

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    • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s Scot free tbh. A Scot is a tax or fine

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aaron wasn’t a founder. He came on 6-12 months after spaz brought reddit to market

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• FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck you /u/spez.

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  • thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or fuck /u/spez, for short

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One of my three strikes for my perma was because I posted that on a bandwagon thread during the API exodus lol

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• edible_funk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Spez was the mod of a pedo sub. He’s also a white supremacist piece of dogshit.

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  • VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Success doesn’t ring at your door by chance. First you have to demonstrate how horrible you are and how you can contribute to make humanity worse.

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  • Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck spez.

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• datavoid@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not a single mention of Swartz in the article. Absolute scum

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• very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  he lauded Reddit as being “for humans by humans” and seemed to take a subtle dig at AI slop (the low-quality AI content clogging corners of the internet)

  That’s pretty funny coming from the CEO of a platform that was already overrun by low-effort bots even before AI slop became a thing…

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• unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fucking parasite. I wish him nothing but the worst.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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• DrCake@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For humans by humans

  Could have fooled me

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For bots, by bots

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• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The moderator of r/jailbait?

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  • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That just means he fits in with the rest of them.

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    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hard to fit all those egos on Little Saint John.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Worth mentioning that at that time you could add anyone as moderator and they wouldn’t even know or decline the mod rights.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Thanks for all the unpaid work mods!”

  Lol he’d never thank the plebeians.

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They can’t afford to pay so many mods! You’re crazy! /s

    Now, if you’ll excuse him … he’s buying a new yacht.

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    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably to fuck children

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• PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The previous moderator r/jailbait is now a billionaire.

  idk what jailbait is. And do not want to know lol.

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It used to be a subreddit related to… very young girls? My understanding is it means by taking the bait (=using the subreddit) you risk going to jail. I think the sub disappeared before I even discovered Reddit, so I don’t know exactly if users were posting pictures or something else

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    • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was a subreddit where redditors would post pictures of underage girls. The images weren’t outright pornographic, they were images some of the members took of unsuspecting girls in public or other locations(I remember there was a teacher posting pictures of his students) or images the girls posted themselves on various social media. Some were suggestive some weren’t but all of them were leered over and discussed by creeps with language that should never used towards minors.

      At some point the subreddit came into the attention of Anderson Cooper which run a segment on CNN about it. Even then Reddit refused to ban the subreddit citing “free speech”. Eventually one of the people on the subreddit posted a picture of a minor and said he had naked pictures of her which created a feeding frenzy of creeps asking him for those pictures. This finally made Reddit ban the subreddit.

      The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out. Before all that Reddit gave him an award and various redditors voted him as the best moderator or some shit like that. Besides /r/jailbait he was running a lot of other questionable subreddits.

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    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not saying I agree with it, but this is the actual meaning of the word:

      Spoiler

      The term jailbait existed long before the subreddit and is used to refer to underage girls that are sexually attractive, therefore they are “baiting” you to go to jail by having sex with them.

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not to defend it but people have a bit of selective bias here as it was not “very young girls” but <18. Still nasty but it was not out right full pedo shit and more geared to cringe teen culture at the time. Then the subreddit became a big free speech topic and people straight up started posting young teens to really push the topic which proved reddit’s free speech stance wrong and they banned the subreddit.

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  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just to note, at the time anyone could be made a moderator without their approval, so that alone is not demonstrating his support for that subreddit.

    Allowing it to continue was his implicit support of it. He was well aware of what they were doing, and only acted when it became a PR issue.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck Spez

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Redditors: “Billionaires shouldn’t exist!”

  Also redditors: Helps make latest billionaire…

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• zaugofficial@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck reddit, fuck censorship, and fuck advertising.

  Also fuck all the dumbasses that disagree.

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck you, Spaz.

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• dil@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Im convinced her killed the other cofounder, never a suicide

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  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The US government did that via a guy who wanted a promotion at the DOJ.

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  • el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Convinced by what evidence?

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    • shiftymccool@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire”

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    • dil@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you expect me to be the first conspiracy theorist to provide actual evidence you are out of your mind

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• theherk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Greedy little pig boy

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• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A billion rubles? The company has been allowing outside actors to manipulate the platform since at least 2016. No way they let them do that for free.

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this calls for a celebration

  Image

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guys wouldn’t it be funny if Luigi had a brother named Mario?

  cough

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A distant cousin Lemmio just stares blankly, freeing in danger :).

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m more likely to find humans on grindr than Reddit at this point.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From a company that was constantly in the reds?

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  • falseWhite@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s because they sold and continue to sell ALL the user generated data on the platform.

    That’s why people can no longer express their opinions there like calling Trump an orange turd or Elon a Nazi will get you immediately banned.

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• boogiebored@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Worst coming out ever.

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• synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  rip aaron swartz

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• peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck reddit and it’s CEO.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ooh a debutante. Does he get a fancy dress and a coming out party? How exactly do you get jumped into that club?

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• far_university1990@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Spez ist ein Hurensohn

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• architect@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck spez.

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