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A comment on The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014). Parent comment

Re:The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) by breck on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:44PM (#25739895)
> But being noble doesn't get you anywhere nowadays.

It never did. You do it for the people that come after you.

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Re:The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) by MeinBlutIstBlau on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:22PM (#25741037)
Doing anything for the "greater good" doesn't get you anything besides being a folk hero. There are very few if any folk heroes that ever "triumphed" over the state.
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