Is this why reddit went dark? They need their API to police you for wrongthink? 👮♀️ 👮♀️
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Let it fucking burn. I hear the tranny jannies are threatening to go on strike after the blackout, which would be the best thing to ever happen to that shithole. The hilarious part about this whole thing is Faggitors being all shocked that Spez is acting in bad faith. We could have told them that the tranny fucker doesn't have a good faith bone in his body years ago.
Ever since they removed Aaron Schwartz from list of founders
Before today I only knew Aaron Schwartz as a pro free speech founder of Reddit (I won't call it Faggit this time since it wasn't a troon infested shithole when he part of it). Having just checked out his biography I'm convinced that the Bathhouse Barry regime Epsteined him. It's clear that he was a massive thorn in the side of some powerful people, and I doubt his pro free speech stance on Reddit earned him much sympathy from the powers that be.
Ever since he died reddit went down a dark path. It does make me wonder if he was the only one standing in their way.
Schwartz broke real laws in attempting to copy a publication database. Breaking and entering, physically wiring his computer into a private network.
Ok for a 'good' cause, whatever. Problem is he did it in the dumbest way possible.
The planted computer was on the free Wifi network, but he actually went into the network closet a second time to retrieve it, which is when he was caught; you don't rob the same bank twice for fuck sake. Even if he had gotten away with it he was setting up a rival college to take the fall, so they were pissed and weren't going to give him a break. He didn't properly rate limit it either, and a rinky-dink 10 requests a minute service is going to notice and break when it gets 10 a second instead.
Plenty of smart ways to clone that database, but the point here is the guy was an idiot. Terrible decision-making, terrible execution. Totally believable that he'd 41% himself rather than do six months and be a felon.
I've way out of the loop here, what's going on over at Reddit? I haven't even thought about that shithole site for months.
They're charging extortionate amounts of money (think millions per year) for access to their API. The plan is to kill 3rd party apps and make everyone use their shitty app and so they can push ads on people. This pissed off the tranny jannies because they use 3rd party tools to censor wrong think, hence the blackout to try to make Spez the tranny fucker backtrack.
Haha, nice. I'm so glad I walked away from that place. It consumed my internet browsing habits for far too long.