Tag: aaron swartz
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Israel’s Birthday, Age Of Rage, Patent Trolls (Audio)
This week on the New World Next Week: Israel celebrates its birthday by spilling the blood of unarmed protesters; a think piece on cliodynamics asks if we are destined for an age of rage; and the EFF slays the patent trolls.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Israel Celebrates Birthday With Gaza Massacre (Video)
This week on the New World Next Week: Israel celebrates its birthday by spilling the blood of unarmed protesters; a think piece on cliodynamics asks if we are destined for an age of rage; and the EFF slays the patent trolls.
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#MorningMonarchy: January 11, 2016
El Chappo, China meltdown and the global goals + this day in history w/Aaron Swartz and our song of the day by the late, great David Bowie on your Morning Monarchy for January 11, 2016.
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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
The Internet’s Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions…
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“The Day We Fight Back”: #StopTheNSA Protest Declared for Feb 11
from slashgear.com: In honor of the late programmer and activist Aaron Swartz and in light of information contained in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the EFF, Free Press, Demand Progress, and other entities will be holding a day of anti-NSA mass spying protests on February 11. The day is being called “The Day We Fight…
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Was Aaron Swartz Murdered?
Richard Evans writes in article, “Was Aaron Swartz Murdered?,” a different perspective from mainstream media that treats Swartz’s suicide as a response to his 2011 indictment and legal bullying. Swartz downloaded entire JSTOR archives, “…because the organization pays the publishers of scholarly articles, not the authors,” explains Evans, “…charged under the 1986 Computer Fraud and…