The People's Record

Aaron is a hero because he refused to play along with the government’s agenda, instead he used his brilliance and passion to create a more transparent society. Through the free software movement, open publishing and file sharing, and development of cryptography and anonymity technology, digital activists have revealed the poverty of neo-liberalism and intellectual property. Aaron opposed reducing everything to a commodity to be bought or sold for a profit.

Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond on the late Aaron Swartz, part of his statement written from solitary confinement. 

(Source: revolution-news.com)

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