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Laws only matter if you're not rich. (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 220 points 1 week ago

Important to note Aaron was helping democratize information while companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft just centralize, twist and redact information to monetize access to a dumbed down and censored version of it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Is it safe to assume that every single author (apart from the ones that cannot prove their works were in any of those archives at the time) can sue meta for plagiarism and theft?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago

I am getting so sick of this fucked up world.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago (6 children)

There is a very good documentary about Aaron's life: The Internet's Own Boy

Its license is Creative Commons, so it's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc