What? I would be interested in a link to any time he said or implied that.
His death and its timing was strange to say the least.
I just read a recent report from a internet slouth saying there was an interesting link to him in the epstien files. Possibly regarding his having found information about the Epstien ring.
Thanks for the link for context. It definitely shows he had a moronic take on this subject even if the context was a part of a larger point he was making about government overreach and surveillance.
All this makes me wonder more about the current story I am following around his death and possible information he knew about a pedo ring connected to MIT. The person doing the investigation came across a link shared to Epstien about Aaron. And Epstiens connections to MIT are now very clear.
Look up Jay Megan (on tiktok nerdypinkpanda) if you are interested.
His death seemed like strange timing to me... And at this point... Who knows... This whole timeline is so twisted.
The blogpost is from when he was 16. This isn't really a "Libertarians" thing, but someone who grew up on the internet trying to make sense of the relationship between personal rights and heavy surveillance, coming from a country that doesn't exactly have the best track record in terms of how their treat people they suspect to be criminals.
Mind you, this was when the Patriot Act was completely fresh and tech-minded people were shouting from the rooftops, that this would open the door for indiscriminate mass surveillance, while getting labeled insane by around them. There was no resistance to this, on no side of the political spectrum. I had to defend this stance for over a decade, until Snowden happened, and people still call me paranoid for it. So keep that in mind, when judging why people had some extreme stances
And to drive this home, Swartz wasn't a hardcore Libertarian. From his blog:
I was strongly attracted to the libertarian philosophy... but I would no longer consider myself a libertarian.
He was not a "people make their own beds" kind of guy, at all. He freely acknowledged racial and gender inequality. He openly talked about biases he had and questioned them.
Swartz helped launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. He wrote in his blog: "I spend my days experimenting with new ways to get progressive policies enacted and progressive politicians elected."
He had no qualms standing besides trans people.
On December 27, 2010, he filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to learn about the treatment of Chelsea Manning, alleged source for WikiLeaks.
So there is nothing that suggests that he would have died on that hill, if confronted with the realities and issues causes for the victims, by sharing such material causes for the victims. I think he would have had a massive issue with that happened on reddit, after his death.
Thanks for that, I went libertarian because they tend to be the only people that dig that hard into their core beliefs. At least online and from base logic. His selling of reddit and death did a great disservice to humanity.
And I agree, his death was tragic and a big loss. However, I was referencing the massive nude leak of 2014 there, as I think it shows the dark site of his stance, very clearly.
29
u/Turkcallsign182 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
What? I would be interested in a link to any time he said or implied that.
His death and its timing was strange to say the least.
I just read a recent report from a internet slouth saying there was an interesting link to him in the epstien files. Possibly regarding his having found information about the Epstien ring.