2022/01/05

Justin Peters Reminds Us of the Legacy of Aaron Swartz

● 05/01/2022
“He was an idealist. Someone who had a very clear idea about how the world should be, and what he could do to bring it to that point. And yet, he was ill-equipped to deal with how the world actually was.”
– The Idealist (2016) author Justin Peters, on the legacy of Aaron Swartz. The wunderkind information activist and “conscience of the internet” took his life eight years ago, after U.S. prosecutors pursued incarceration as punishment for downloading 4.8 million academic journal articles.
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