Heliograph@davidnjoku 
% yes to Support your Local #Library!!!
Also, please let me add this here #AaronSwartz
Tiago Peixoto (@[email protected])
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles. 13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger. The law didn't change. https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/
Negative PID SL
David PeachIt's days like these that I really lament over the tragedy of #AaronSwartz.
He was punished trying to take locked-away public knowledge and making it public and available for all.
Now "ai" companies are praised for taking the worlds public knowledge and locking it behind a paywall.
He once said that he could never become president because "they dont let criminals work there".
fuck #AI and fuck t_rump.
DenisH@affordance
J'ai beaucoup aimé "torcheculatoire" sans en trouver une définition formelle (mais j'ai ma petite idée).
#Aaronswartz
J'ai beaucoup aimé "torcheculatoire" sans en trouver une définition formelle (mais j'ai ma petite idée).
#Aaronswartz
Maria Chiara Pievatolo#AaronSwartz was treated like a criminal. #AI (#SALAMI) companies that do the same are not, even if their main interests are money and surveillance, not science.
This is a blatant demonstration that the purpose of #copyright today is n ot to defend authors, but rather to defend corporate monopolies.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html
Authors and readers share an interest: defending the freedom of data they only can interpret to build knowledge!
AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge - Schneier on Security
More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded thousands of academic articles from the JSTOR archive with the intention of making them publicly available. For this, the federal government charged him with a felony and threatened decades in prison. After two years of prosecutorial pressure, Swartz died by suicide on Jan. 11, 2013. The still-unresolved questions raised by his case have resurfaced in today’s debates over artificial intelligence, copyright and the ultimate control of knowledge...
GIT Milano soci di Banca Etica" Control over data, models and computational infrastructure is concentrated in the hands of a small number of powerful tech companies. They will decide who gets access to knowledge, under what conditions and at what price. "
https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2026/0215.html
February 15, 2026 - Schneier on Security
In this issue: New Vulnerability in n8n AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something? Internet Voting is Too Insecure for Use in Elections Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks Ireland Proposes Giving Police New Digital Surveillance Powers The Constitutionality of Geofence Warrants AIs Are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities AI Coding Assistants Secretly Copying All Code to China Microsoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites Backdoor in Notepad++ iPhone Lockdown Mode Protects Washington Post Reporter I Am in the Epstein Files LLMs are Getting a Lot Better and Faster at Finding and Exploiting Zero-Days AI-Generated Text and the Detection Arms Race Prompt Injection Via Road Signs Rewiring Democracy Ebook is on Sale 3D Printer Surveillance Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Albert S.RE: https://mastodon.social/@X_net/116056851332424949
“El… patrimoni… científic mundial cada cop s'està digitalitzant més i passa a estar controlat per unes quantes corporacions privades. […] El moviment a favor de l'accés obert ha lluitat per tal que els científics no signin declaracions de copyright, sinó que s'assegurin que el seu treball es publica a internet, en uns termes que permetin que tothom hi pugui accedir. ”
Pensa!
Steven G. Harms“Bloomberg and The Guardian are reporting significant drops in the share prices of Pearson, Relx (owner of LexisNexis), Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer and Sage”
No. Stop. Don’t.
edafe.deAI and the corporate capture of knowledge
“A society cannot meaningfully debate policy, science or justice if information is locked away behind paywalls or controlled by proprietary algorithms. If we allow AI companies to profit from mass appropriation while claiming immunity, we are choosing a future in which access to knowledge is governed by corporate power rather than democratic values.” Bruce Schneier warns of a future in which access to knowledge is subordinate to corporate interests.
#aaronswartz #ai #artificialintelligence #copyright #corporations #democracy #economics #education #hypocrisy #information #international #internet #knowledge #politics #power #propaganda #society #valuesAI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge - Schneier on Security
More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded thousands of academic articles from the JSTOR archive with the intention of making them publicly available. For this, the federal government charged him with a felony and threatened decades in prison. After two years of prosecutorial pressure, Swartz died by suicide on Jan. 11, 2013. The still-unresolved questions raised by his case have resurfaced in today’s debates over artificial intelligence, copyright and the ultimate control of knowledge...
RSS feeds are at the core of online subscriptions, channels, and content distribution. Aaron Swartz developed it when he was just 14.