They had one founder who actually believed in that, he left in 2007 and is now deceased. (RIP) But they’ve been milking it ever since.
Huffman and Ohanian are both Y Combinator grifter types, Ohanian also happens to be married to Serena Williams yet rather than being content to live off his extremely wealthy wife’s money he’s spent the last few years touting crypto scams.
Further, copyright and the rest of the intellectual property lot only serve the current corporatist arrangement, helping keep large companies hard to compete with. It’s funny how people praise things like patents for “protecting” people, but it’s literally a government-granted monopoly on useful shit that would be cheap and accessible if people couldn’t pay for the rights to legally screw other people over.
Remember when Reddit was the free software alternative?
They had one founder who actually believed in that, he left in 2007 and is now deceased. (RIP) But they’ve been milking it ever since.
Huffman and Ohanian are both Y Combinator grifter types, Ohanian also happens to be married to Serena Williams yet rather than being content to live off his extremely wealthy wife’s money he’s spent the last few years touting crypto scams.
Yeah Aaron swartz was internet believer. Fun y how people like him get targeted.
Fuck MIT.
DOJ basically killed him for doing proto-scihub stuff
Yeah they overcharged him thinking he’d take a plea. Kinda standard but fucked up, too.
yeah it’s almost like the entire criminal legal system is fundamentally corrupt and only serves to enforce existing power structures.
Further, copyright and the rest of the intellectual property lot only serve the current corporatist arrangement, helping keep large companies hard to compete with. It’s funny how people praise things like patents for “protecting” people, but it’s literally a government-granted monopoly on useful shit that would be cheap and accessible if people couldn’t pay for the rights to legally screw other people over.
The entire political & economic systems are built to serve and enforce existing power structures.*
Oh shit, I thought spez was the one who married the tennis she-hulk.