Not to mention that Swartz had a JSTOR account, which means he was legally entitled to download the things that he did. The part they didn’t like was that he used scripts to download en-mass, and a bunch of boomer fucks thought he actually committed a crime.
I’m with you right up to the ageism. The folks who persecuted Aaron were older than him, but they were not boomers, and what they did had nothing to do with his age or theirs.
Not to mention that Swartz had a JSTOR account, which means he was legally entitled to download the things that he did. The part they didn’t like was that he used scripts to download en-mass, and a bunch of boomer fucks thought he actually committed a crime.
I’m with you right up to the ageism. The folks who persecuted Aaron were older than him, but they were not boomers, and what they did had nothing to do with his age or theirs.
Bigotry is always wrong.
Boomer is a mindset.
Fine. Use a word for it that isn’t a bigoted slur.
Boomer isn’t a slur.