Reddit removes Aaron Swartz from founders list

The founders list:

https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4

Reddit discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/j4fsi1/redd...

Company history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History

From there, I suppose this is the rationale:

> The idea and initial development of Reddit originated with then college roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005.

> Between November 2005 and January 2006, Reddit merged with Aaron Swartz's company Infogami, and Swartz became an equal owner of the resulting parent company, Not A Bug. Ohanian later wrote that instead of labeling Swartz as a co-founder, the correct description is that Swartz's company was acquired by Reddit 6 months after he and Huffman had started.

EDIT: This doesn't seem to be news though. Checking the Wayback Machine, Aaron Swartz seems to never have been mentioned as a founder on that page. Here's what the page looked like in April 2018:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180409192133/https://www.reddi...

Let's not link to a YouTube video please. dang could ideally switch this to the Reddit discussion or the link to the founder's list itself.

"Removed"? Going back to 2018, it doesn't appear his name was ever on that page: https://web.archive.org/web/20180409192133/https://www.reddi...

It's just as well; I doubt Aaron would like being associated with the disgusting entity Reddit has become

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419

Reddit (2005-2020) is dead, RIP Aaron.

They even rewrite google search results: https://www.google.com/search?q=Reddit+founders

Slippyd re-added Aaron to Reddit's Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reddit&oldid=9822...

Has there been any publication of their reasoning for this?

A founder is a founder and he was influential.

kn0thing and spez are controversial in their own rights and I am first on board to criticise them but I don’t want to jump the gun. It had better be an excellent reason though.