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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  1403 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet

Aaron Schwartz died is what happened. While he was alive no one had anything nice to say about him. The Reddit folx went out of their way to disavow him, disavow that he had anything to do with Reddit, disavow that he had ever done anything of any substance. Soon as he was dead he was everyone's hero, the fuckin' Internet's Own Boy (gag).

The problem is, nobody considers anything computer in the terms of things that are noncomputer. It's this null space in our collective conscious where we are both stupidly lax (you wouldn't download a car!) and stupidly strict (Jammie Thomas and her $1.9m penalty for 24 songs).