Well, see, Aaron Swartz isn't a billionaire, so he doesn't matter.

For those not in the know:

Swartz's involvement in Reddit is debated. He is considered the co-founder of Reddit by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham as a result of the merger of Swartz's project Infogami and Reddit. With the merger of Infogami and Reddit, Swartz became a co-owner and director of parent company Not A Bug, Inc., along with Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Ohanian considers Swartz a co-owner of Reddit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#cite_note-7

Fuck /u/spez

lol at the redacted usernames, like it's a secret or something

rest in force Aaron

Steve Huffman... Isn't he that greedy little pig boy?

Fuck reddit

Fuck Spez

huffman cant stop smelling MUSKs faerts, ohanian sold out for something else.

Ship of Theseus argument: would Aaron recognize Reddit of today with all its....improvements...as the Reddit he knew? Those two founded something that has the name but not the soul.

Justice for Aaron Swartz

fuck u/spez

Aaron was by far the best of them all. That documentary moved me to tears...

From Wikipedia

Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in June 2005, who were joined by Aaron Swartz that November.

I think it's reasonable to say that if you weren't there for the original ideation, you're not a founder. Doesn't mean Aaron wasn't an amazing person.

Reddit is a pro-American forum with hard censorship and extremist moderators. They cover that up with funny memes to look like fun. Until you think you can post something yourself.

Dude that's FUCKED up.

Fuck Spez.

Reddit in a nutshell

Murdered by Carmen Ortiz.

Could you post the URL this is from and not just a screenshot?

spez is a opportunistic dickhead, no doubt.

That tracks. Fuck reddit and fuck spez.

Someone did a brief writeup on Swartz and Reddit on reddit. Pretty sure it’s been deleted, I saved it and it’s gone. It went against the hivemind take on Swartz as some sort of noble freedom fighter and offered evidence that he was naive, out of touch, didn’t have as much to do with Reddit as everyone thinks, and he was obviously troubled.

I have to take anything painting him as some kind of hero with a grain of salt.