Mastodawn

Aaron Swartz joined the RSS working group when he was 13. At 15 he became a foundational member of Creative Commons. He was working on precursors to markdown at 16.

We should not be locking young people out of our communities and keeping them away from digital tools that can open doors for them, expand their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and help them grow into well-rounded adults.

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Becca 🌳🚀🛀2d ago

@nathandyer
I agree that we should allow kids access to technology.

But Aaron Schwartz of all people never got to grow into a "well-rounded adult" since he killed himself at 26. That's a rather unfortunate choice of words for that particular example.

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aismallard

@rlcw @nathandyer He did not die because of access to technology, he was killed by those restricting access to their “intellectual property”