Aaron Swartz - the real reason he was murdered

juan juan.g71 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 21:46:51 PST 2016


On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:58:52 -0700
Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:

> On 12/11/2016 07:28 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> > On 12/11/2016 08:18 PM, Mirimir wrote:
> > 
> > ... the list as a whole is devalued by the continued lack of
> > moderation. This is not whitesupremistneonazipunks, this is
> > cypherpunks. I am not challenging his freedom of speech, but this
> > is not the forum for that. It would be perfectly on-topic for a
> > neo-nazi or KKK list. That is not this list!
> 
> I get your concern. Naive users, coming across these messages through
> search sites, might get a bad impression. But please consider that
> freedom and autonomy are key cypherpunk values. 


	It's quite funny that you talk to quinn as if he wasn't the
	biggest troll on the list. He doesn't subscribe to any
	cypherpunk value and his constant calls for moderation are 1000%
	pure trolling.



> Along with technical
> competence. So the best outcome is helping people manage unmoderated
> lists on their own, without reliance on centralized control.
> 
> Also, please consider that causing grief is the key goal for trolls.
> And consider how forcing an ideologically unmoderated list to moderate
> itself would be _such_ a fucking win for Z_n. No?

	No, it would be a fucking win for the totalitarian scumbag
	known as shawn quinn.








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