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Jun 27, 2014 · As he grew up, Swartz became a modern protestor. Just as forward-thinkers before him used their righteous anger in civil disobedience through physical action, Aaron did so through technology, fighting against for profit-corporations keeping information from the world. The internet was the great equalizer. “Now everyone has a license to speak ...
Informative and enraging in equal measure, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz uses its subject's tragic tale to deliver an impassioned call to action. Filmmaker Brian Knappenberger ...
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The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to ...
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Aug 24, 2014 · The Internet’s Own Boy chronicles the life and work of internet activist and programming prodigy Aaron Swartz. Swartz was involved in pioneering web development projects from an early age. However, his social and political activism and his aggressive stance on free access to information put him in trouble with the US government. It resulted ...
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Jul 6, 2014 · Movie Interview: Brian Knappenberger, Director Of 'The Internet's Own Boy' : All Tech Considered Programmer and activist Aaron Swartz was a "complex person," says filmmaker Brian Knappenberger. He ...
Jun 26, 2014 · by Scott Tobias. For advocates of a free and democratic Internet, Aaron Swartz’s January 2013 death was a terrible loss in both a real sense and a symbolic one. As the title of the sympathetic profile The Internet’s Own Boy suggests, Swartz was a savant who understood the web as few ever did. His résumé starts in his early teens and ...
