Swartz waslonggone from Reddit by then -- hewas let go just after the Conde Nast purchase -- but believed in the ethos of the site and the open Internet in general.
His successor, General Manuel Jose Bonett, has gone back to the classics, telling a news-magazine that he felt hewas living in the long-ago Athens of Aristophanes, where corrupt leaders took their countries to war to divert attention from troubles at home.