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Paramdeo Singh 🇬🇾

@tychi My favorite quote from Swartz:

"I think all censorship should be deplored. My position is that bits are not a bug. That we should create communications technologies that allow people to send whatever they like to each other. And when people put their thumbs on the scale and try to say what can and can’t be sent, we should fight back - both politically through protest and technologically through software."

Freedom of speech must be absolute.

10 Jun 2023 at 0:17 | Wall-to-wall | Open on fosstodon.org
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Ms. Penny 🐝 Oaken

@paramdeo @tychi you may change your opinion on Swartz when you realise that his position on “freedom of speech” and “anti-censorship” extended to arguing that he had a right to possess and distribute CSAM: web.archive.org/web/2003122902

Swartz was smart and talented, but certain of his opinions are attractive to certain types of creeps, trolls, and fools who built a cult of personality around a dead man.

10 Jun 2023 at 1:13 | Open on mastodon.social
@hu4d

@PennyOaken @paramdeo @tychi it's really challenging, i think, for us to all look back on the early days of the internet and realize that it was all built by talented people who ultimately belonged on the early internet

10 Jun 2023 at 1:53 | Open on mstdn.social
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