This self-taught programmer ultimately renounced his creation and became a fierce critic of QAnon and unmoderated forums.

The article is paywalled, available on archive(.)is (which should be avoided, see here), but it doesn’t contain any real new info beyond the first, visible paragraphs.

  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    I watched a documentary or something with him in it talking about his experience with the chan boards and qanon.

    I was honestly curious about his take on all that has transpired just the other day.

    I feel like I remember him having some horrifying brittle bone disease or something.

    • antonim@lemmy.worldOP
      17·
      4 days ago

      Yes, the visible part of the article talks about the disease. Later on also:

      He harbored deep resentment toward his parents, who knew there was a high risk their children would inherit osteogenesis imperfecta, which his mother also had. In 2014, he published an op-ed on the Daily Stormer, the main English-language neo-Nazi website, where he expressed support for eugenics and voluntary sterilization of people with disabilities.

    • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Q: Into the Storm from HBO. Pretty good doc, interview a lot of the main persons and seem to come to a pretty good conclusion, but yeah I was curious too with this new info.