Aaron Swartz, the co-founder of well known news aggregation website Reddit.com and developer of the RSS web feed format was a big thinker who fell in love with all things tech from a very young age, having only been 13 years of age when he started work on developing RSS and 19 when Reddit was born. The web itself is filled with traces of Swart’s innovative work, but he later became more and more heavily involved in work relating to social justice and political activism in an effort to harness the internets true potential, but it was this later work which would get him noticed by the FBI and other such law enforcement agencies.
Swartz was arrested by the MIT police on January 6th of 2011 for state breaking-and-entering charges, after systematically downloading academic journal articles from JSTOR. This lead to talk of Swartz being slapped with a $1 million fine and the possibility of serving a 35 year prison sentence. It was this legal battle which resulted in Swartz taking his own life at the age of 26.
good documentary. would recommend.
i really hope your being ironic otherwise you’v just wasted an hour of your life completely failing to grasp what Aaron Swartz died for, represented and the legacy he’s left. He was far to intelligent and important to be wasting time on a figurative world when he was changing the literal for the better, to bring god into it is genuinely moronic and embarrassing
what killed aaron was his inability to connect with an all powerful GOD, yes even one who will go to prison with you if need be. a great loss to us all. a foundation with GOD is a must. a complete relationship, the least you need for your stay here. the enemy has one, bring yours. a hard fought battle just ahead, we win!!! without fear there is no courage…