He can't have looked more than 15, if even that. And to be so passionately interested in not only the cutting edge parts of the Internet, but their civic implications at that age...what a loss.
This guy kicked the pants off me in everything I care about.
And this:
"What do you consider most important today?
I think we need to do a better job explaining the state of the world to people, which is mostly an old-fashioned research and writing project. There’s an enormous amount of curiosity these days about how things like the government and the media work and how, in the US, things have gone so wrong. But nobody is doing a very good job of providing the answers."
Like reads my mind, very frustrating and confusing this morning eh.
Yes...if there was any hacker who could advance the state of knowledge in our society with such civic-minded goals, Aaron was one of our best hopes. I took it for granted he would be one of our leaders (not just of the hacking community) for a long time, and that this DoJ case would become a pivotal case for this age. I never met Aaron beyond exchanging online messages but I feel such a tremendous loss.
I was about to quote the same, so I'll pick up the next paragraph from the same interview: "Blogs, TV, newspapers, and magazines barely do a good job helping us understand the news of the day, let alone the larger issues of the world. TV, newspapers, and magazines are largely advertising driven; so stories that offend advertisers get killed. And blogs can be a little better, but it’s a difficult format for expressing big, new ideas and mostly people just read blogs about old ones."
That interview had been done in May 2007. Has he said anything similar after that?
I coincidentally just stumbled upon that thread, too, when seeing if Aaron was even an active member of Reddit (his account is 7 years old but he apparently didn't use it as often as you'd think)
Very appreciate a mention about china government's censorship
when many people outside only care about how lucrative regardless of whatever censorship compromise.
He can't have looked more than 15, if even that. And to be so passionately interested in not only the cutting edge parts of the Internet, but their civic implications at that age...what a loss.