Sam Altman side by side with Aaron Swartz.

I can't stop thinking about it. One was prosecuted by the US for downloading copyrighted data from 1 source for noble purposes, and committed suicide to avoid prison. The other is widely celebrated for doing this on a much larger scale*.

Tariq@rzeta0@mastodon.social comments:

A key difference is why you do it.
If you do it to enrich yourself, cool.
Even cooler if you're already wealthy.
If you do it for socialist reasons, bad.
Even worse if you're poor because you can't call it philanthropy.