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Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?
Show threadAsta [AMP]Jan 9, 2024
@yabellini I don't know whether it's appropriate to say but I just keep thinking "they killed Aaron Swartz for allegedly trying to give people access to science _they've funded_ and they've given 5 billion to Sam Altman for stealing from everyone"

I'm not surprised but for some reason I just can't stop thinking it. I hate it. I hate it so much. They crushed him even though apparently there was a strong indication that what he was doing wasn't even illegal.

EDIT: I’ve been made aware that Aaron’s family opposes this framing about his death, which I did not know about. The campaign against him was awful, but I’m sorry for spreading something disrespectful.
Show threadCarRamrodJan 9, 2024
@aud @yabellini (Mostly) Unregulated capitalism is a cancer.

Edit: missed a word lol
Show threadMarc TriusJan 9, 2024

@CarRamrod @yabellini @aud the reason for the contrast is that Swartz was enriching the commons, whereas Altman is enriching shareholders. It's called the profit motive. No amount of regulation can change the basic incentive structure of capitalism.

They even acquitted German corporate executives at Nuremberg who were working slaves to death worse than the SS at Auschwitz, because it was their "fiduciary duty to company shareholders" to do so, and therefore it was ruled they had no choice...

Show threadAntonio
@alter_kaker Really?
Jan 11, 2024 at 2:10pmWeb
Show threadMarc TriusJan 11, 2024

@agremon
"When 24 Farben executives were tried at Nuremberg for the slaughter at Monowitz, then argued that they had no choice but to pursue slave labor – it was their duty to their shareholders. The judges agreed: 19 of those executives walked."

From https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/19/stolpersteine/#truth-and-reconciliation citing https://www.scribd.com/document/517797736/The-Crime-and-Punishment-of-I-G-Farben

Pluralistic: Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany’s story (19 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Show threadAntonioJan 11, 2024
@alter_kaker Thanks!
Show threadWeedkillerJan 11, 2024
@alter_kaker Thanks for sharing, very informative