[The film] 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 of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.” By Dan Colman openculture.com June 29, 2014 [youtube=http://youtu.be/vXr-2hwTk58] More
Nov. 8 was Aaron Swartz Day—a time to honor the late champion of civil rights in the Internet age ... It was a day his surviving allies and admirers enlisted in an effort to form Swartz’s still-evolving legacy into a hammer that can be used to... build a society premised on political openness and the More
The Over-Policing of America Police Overkill Has Entered the DNA of Social Policy By Chase Madar December 8, 2013 tomdispatch.com Read Tom Dispatch editor Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. Xurble. Art from truthdig.com posting of this article.If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and More
In era of "most aggressive government assaults on press freedom," new open source dropbox provides "secure route" for leaks Lauren McCauley, staff writer May 19, 2013 CommonDreams.org Kevin Poulsen and Aaron Swartz working out the kinks of their open sourced safe house. (Photo via The New Yorker) One month before his January 11th suicide, web pioneer More
In era of "most aggressive government assaults on press freedom," new open source dropbox provides "secure route" for leaks Lauren McCauley, staff writer May 19, 2013 CommonDreams.org Kevin Poulsen and Aaron Swartz working out the kinks of their open sourced safe house. (Photo via The New Yorker) One month before his January 11th suicide, web pioneer More
Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on "How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy" — Video [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5yCL2U6Fzo#.UV8GUEClBDE] TRANSCRIPT DemocracyNow.org This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We are on the road in Denver, Colorado, at the first day of the National Conference for Media Reform, where close to 2,000 people have More
Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on "How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy" — Video [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5yCL2U6Fzo#.UV8GUEClBDE] TRANSCRIPT DemocracyNow.org This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We are on the road in Denver, Colorado, at the first day of the National Conference for Media Reform, where close to 2,000 people have More
