If you wanna rise in the West, you better be evil.
RIP Aaron Schwartz. 🙏
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RIP Aaron Schwartz. 🙏
Is he related to Aaron Swartz?
Edit: Peak documentary of his life (free) for those unfamiliar. 🥹
Important morals if you want to be "successful": have no morals. And no self-respect either.
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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
And his narcissism is rewarded with extreme wealth and power.
Peak capitalism.
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The wrong founder died, unfortunately.
Died due to criminal prosecution for something Meta was able to get away with Scott-free.
God damn America.
Bleak.
But you're not wrong. Motherfuckers.
Wait was he the guy that hosted all of those academic articles and was prosecuted for it, the killed himself?
He hooked his laptop up to school servers and was copying all the data on them.
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Fuck you /u/spez.
Or fuck /u/spez, for short
One of my three strikes for my perma was because I posted that on a bandwagon thread during the API exodus lol
May you wear it proudly
Spez was the mod of a pedo sub. He's also a white supremacist piece of dogshit.
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.
Fuck spez.
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...
not to mention whose recent valuations have basically been about selling their data to train models which will be used to make AI slop
Yep. Shutting down the API was 100% because they were angry they got scraped and didn't get money.
Not a single mention of Swartz in the article. Absolute scum
Fucking parasite. I wish him nothing but the worst.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
For humans by humans
Could have fooled me
For bots, by bots
"Thanks for all the unpaid work mods!"
Lol he'd never thank the plebeians.
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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The previous moderator r/jailbait is now a billionaire.
idk what jailbait is. And do not want to know lol.
I put what little I know about it inside a spoiler tag
spoiler
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. So essentially a place catering to pedophiles. I think the sub disappeared before I even discovered Reddit, so I don't know exactly if users were posting pictures or something else
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.
When I encounter teenagers who use reddit I tell them to look up "subreddit of the year 2008" just to gross them out.
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I removed it from the post because allegedly reddit had a feature were you could add anyone to any sub Reddit as moderator and someone added him. Doesn't change the fact he allowed the sub to exist and didn't get it banned until news coverage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#Jailbait
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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.
Oh, and the posts on the subreddit were non-nude photos of underage girls the posters thought were attractive. It was very gross.
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Fuck Spez
Redditors: "Billionaires shouldn't exist!"
Also redditors: Helps make latest billionaire...
Fuck reddit, fuck censorship, and fuck advertising.
Also fuck all the dumbasses that disagree.
Fuck you, Spaz.
Greedy little pig boy
Im convinced he killed the other cofounder, never a suicide
The US government did that via a guy who wanted a promotion at the DOJ.
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.
From a company that was constantly in the reds?
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, because it's bad for training data.
Essentially Reddit is now just a place for generating AI training data and all the people still using it are sad lost sheep selling themselves to AI masters.
I’m more likely to find humans on grindr than Reddit at this point.
Worst coming out ever.
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