Edit: how deliciously ironic, on a thread about Aaron Swartz, a comment questioning censorship is flagged.
Edit: how deliciously ironic, on a thread about Aaron Swartz, a comment questioning censorship is flagged.
>and in opposition to censorship and corporate control of government
I truly wonder what position he would have taken regarding covid/vaccine censorship. Or reddit's implicit authoritarian policy against criticism of LGB and especially T. He seems like an enough of an idealist to have been a free speech absolutist.
That aside, the type of "censorship and corporate control of government" that was prevalent when Aaron Swartz found that organization had strong ties to the post-9/11 insanity that took over Western politics and media. It was a different situation than the ones that you are describing. I wouldn't make any assumptions about whether he would have judged them the same way.