Re:Philip Greenspun: Aaron Swartz
by rdtsc on Saturday January 12, 2013 @04:10PM
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> A large majority of the tech world supported Obama.
I didn't. Fuck Obama. He had voted to give retroactive immunity to telecom companies for spying on American citizens when he was a senator. That showed his true character. Everything else was just marketing.
He even got awarded the "Marketer Of The Year" award from AdAge. Beating Nike, Coke, and Apple. Since then I feel largely my hunch has turned out to be true. We are still at war, we are still engaged in extra-judicial rendition, we spend our tax money trying to show 25 year old programmers in jail for 30+ year for downloading scientific papers, the list goes fuck.
I didn't. Fuck Obama. He had voted to give retroactive immunity to telecom companies for spying on American citizens when he was a senator. That showed his true character. Everything else was just marketing.
He even got awarded the "Marketer Of The Year" award from AdAge. Beating Nike, Coke, and Apple. Since then I feel largely my hunch has turned out to be true. We are still at war, we are still engaged in extra-judicial rendition, we spend our tax money trying to show 25 year old programmers in jail for 30+ year for downloading scientific papers, the list goes fuck.