Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

亚伦·斯沃茨因抓取数据被起诉，而 Meta 却安然无恙

I’m Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence. 19 Aug, 2026. Also here’s a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk. Look at this little guy. They don’t know what an AI model is and they’re so much better off.

我又一次因为 RSS 协议的共同创造者因某事被起诉，而 Meta 做同样的事却几乎没受惩罚感到愤怒。2026 年 8 月 19 日。另外，这里有一张与主题无关的酷炫花栗鼠照片。看看这个小家伙，它们不知道什么是人工智能模型，这样反而过得更好。

It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the co-creators of the RSS protocol (among many other things) was effectively assassinated by our legal system for “illegally” downloading about 70 gigabytes of academic articles from JSTOR - charged so excessively to be made an example of (we’re talking 35 years in prison, $1million USD fine, and asset forfeiture) to the point where he felt the need to take his own life rather than deal with the court circus and impending financial ruin - while Facebook (oh I’m sorry Meta) has torrented 80 TERABYTES of books to train their AI models with virtually no consequences other than a court case they will most likely get some sort of financial slap on the wrist for while their AI models continue to print them money.

亚伦·斯沃茨（Aaron Swartz）作为 RSS 协议（以及其他许多成就）的共同创造者之一，被我们的法律体系“暗杀”了，这简直是对我们整个社会的控诉。他仅仅因为“非法”从 JSTOR 下载了约 70GB 的学术文章，就遭到了极其过分的指控，被当作反面典型（面临 35 年监禁、100 万美元罚款以及资产没收），以至于他宁愿选择结束自己的生命，也不愿面对那场法律闹剧和即将到来的经济崩溃。与此同时，Facebook（哦，抱歉，是 Meta）通过种子下载了 80TB 的书籍来训练其 AI 模型，却几乎没有受到任何惩罚，除了可能面临一场只会让他们受到轻微经济处罚的官司，而他们的 AI 模型却在继续为他们印钞。

Swartz’ use case was the dissemination and archival of knowledge; Meta’s use case is powering up their proprietary plagiarism code that cooks the environment while giving CEO’s psychosis and making one of the world’s richest people even richer. I never met Aaron but I get mad on his behalf so often and I don’t know what to do with it other than get more radicalized. Maybe that’s for the best.

斯沃茨的使用目的是传播和归档知识；而 Meta 的使用目的是为其专有的剽窃代码提供动力，这些代码在破坏环境的同时，让 CEO 陷入精神错乱，并让世界上最富有的人变得更加富有。我从未见过亚伦，但我经常为他感到愤怒，除了变得更加激进，我不知道还能做些什么。也许这反而是件好事。

Anyway, here’s your end-of-post cat photo. Her name is Lilith and she’s wondering why we don’t do something about all these tech billionares.

总之，这是文章结尾的猫咪照片。她叫莉莉丝（Lilith），她想知道为什么我们不对这些科技亿万富翁采取行动。

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