Article Image

IPFS News Link • Internet

Aaron Swartz: The Internet's Own Boy

• http://www.dailypaul.com, Terrence O'Brien
In 2000 Aaron Swartz was just a terrifyingly smart 14 year-old. He was a faceless name on a mailing list, quietly contributing code and copy to RSS 1.0. Roughly twelve years later, in January of 2013, he became an unfortunate casualty in an ongoing battle that pits the government and its business allies against a growing army of online activists.

thelibertyadvisor.com/declare