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He’s also going on about a wild conspiracy theory about Aaron Swartz getting assassinated because he was on to Ghislaine Maxwell, or something like that. And linking it to his open source comments in a way that doesn’t seem to make sense.

He’s almost certainly going through major mental issues, along the lines of schizophrenia or something similar. He needs help.




How is that a wild conspiracy theory?


What’s the concrete evidence making this likely to be true? If there’s none, just wild speculation, then I’d consider it a wild conspiracy theory.

The link seems to be “Swartz downloaded millions of scholarly articles using an MIT network, and Epstein/Maxwell donated money to MIT.” That seems to be about it? Not exactly a logical reason to conclude that Swartz was assassinated as part of an Epstein/Maxwell coverup.


context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838084

as is usual with a lot of recent conspiracy theories, seems analogous to apophenia[0] to me, or something similar.

the non-conspiracy "fact" seems to be what most people here think about Swartz: that he killed himself after a overzealous prosecution. Nothing to do with Epstein or Swartz's role at Reddit.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia


For one thing, the MIT Media Lab is an associate of Epstein's.




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