Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

Also here's a cool unrelated photograph of a chipmunk

Look astatine this small guy. They don't cognize what an AI exemplary is and they're truthful overmuch amended off

It’s thing short of an indictment of our nine astatine ample that Aaron Swartz, 1 of the co-creators of the RSS protocol (among galore different things) was efficaciously assasinated by our ineligible strategy for “illegally” downloading astir 70 gigabytes of world articles from JSTOR - charged truthful excessively to beryllium made an illustration of (we're talking 35 years successful prison, $1million USD fine, and plus forfeiture) to the constituent wherever he felt the request to return his ain life alternatively than woody pinch the tribunal circus and impending financial ruin - while Facebook (oh I’m sorry Meta) has torrented 80 TERABYTES of books to train their AI models pinch virtually nary consequences different than a court case they will astir apt get immoderate benignant of financial slap connected the wrist for while their AI models proceed to people them money.

Swartz' usage lawsuit was the dissemination and archival of knowledge; Meta's usage lawsuit is powering up their proprietary plagiarism codification that cooks the situation while giving CEO's psychosis and making 1 of the world's richest group moreover richer.

I ne'er met Aaron but I get huffy connected his behalf truthful often and I don't cognize what to do pinch it different than get much radicalized.

Maybe that's for the best.

Anyway, here's your end-of-post feline photo. Her sanction is Lilith and she's wondering why we don't do thing astir each these tech billionares.