The Internet martyr.

• Author: Evans, Zenon
• Position: The Internet's Own Boy - Movie review - Brief article

Aaron Swartz was one of the most promising minds of the Internet Age, but his technological and political talents were abruptly interrupted when the activist, facing the threat of decades in prison, killed himself in January 2013.

The Internet's Own Boy documents Swartz's enormous contributions to information freedom on the Web. He got rich quick helping create the social media site Reddit, but he had little interest in money, and turned to political activism, fighting speech-curtailing bills such as the Stop Internet Piracy Act. Swartz examined the relationship between academic researchers...