Mike Masnick says, “Oh you can go fuck all the way off.”

• Author: Mike Masnick
• Date: 2026-09-12 at 16:38 Techdirt time (#5596054)
• Archive: archive.is
• Text source: Copied from archive.is, with Markdown formatting reconstructed by impurify.
• In-reply-to: impurify, “Aaron Swartz is the defenseless dead.”
• Follow-up: impurify, “No, I didn’t personally know Aaron Swartz.”

Oh you can go fuck all the way off.

Did you know Aaron or are you just fucking making pretend? I knew Aaron. Aaron was a colleague. He asked me to be on the board of his non-profit, where I still am today. I wasn’t using Aaron. I knew Aaron. I know what he supported and what he didn’t, and FUCK YOU to tell me that you somehow think you can criticize me for pointing out what Aaron did or did not believe in.

Go the fuck away dude. How fucking dare you pretend that I have no right to talk about what Aaron did or did not believe in.

Fuck off.