Shocking.
Aaron is a technical genius, a man who became famous at a young age, and in his twenties had wealth that others could not earn in a lifetime. When he was a kid, he was already ahead of history. Aaron, founded five years ago by Wikipedia, has made its own knowledge sharing platform. After creating rss and Reddit, he could have retired and started retirement, but his real quest is to patch the systemic holes in this society - keeping the internet and public knowledge democratic.
In the information age, technical geniuses are not rare, but he is the only one who dares to fight against the system. He is the only one who has the technical advantage but Dont be evil. Yet the cost of challenging a vast corrupt system is enormous. Playing a hacker-versus-government game like Watch Dogs makes it hard to feel the cost of challenging the system because the protagonist is too strong, and the cost in reality is that Aaron is forced to commit suicide. He is a loophole in a corrupt system, an outlier, a virus, and should be rejected by the system, and this system has indeed succeeded.
Just using the school system to download a large number of papers and journals for public use by the judiciary is a felony. Coincidentally, in the same year, scihub was launched, but the founder was not American. The government pretended to be dead, and MIT, which has always advocated democracy and freedom, did not defend him, claiming to remain neutral. In the end, the publishing house jstor decided not to prosecute, and the US prosecutor forced a brilliant idealist for his own selfish desires and the idea of setting an example. into desperation. Hemei is already a country with relatively free speech and a high tolerance for "deviant", and this shows that Arron has touched the core foundation that constitutes this world.
When I was in junior high school, during my Internet enlightenment period, I saw his news when I browsed the geek forum. At that time, he was just in the public opinion center. It was my first feeling that he was so handsome and so strong. I also went to mit to read the statement made on the jstor incident. When he was in high school, there was news of his suicide. Only now do I really know his story. We have been domesticated for too long, obeying the rules set for us by this society, doing things honestly within the framework day after day, and even if there is any problem, we can only scold a few words and continue to live under this framework. There is no technical ability, and the cost has been seen. What can be done? There are two paths, despair or forget. Choose the latter, be a successful person in the universal sense, live as a struggler, learn and think about how to sell yourself at a high price every day. Really sad.
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