From director Brian Knappenberger (We Are Legion) comes the tragic story of internet activist Aaron Swartz. Swartz began as a programmer at a very young age and he helped co-found the website reddit. He then focused himself on helping bring public access to the public domain, which got Swartz into trouble. He was arrested for […]
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The opening film of Hot Docs 2014 tells the story of Aaron Swartz. Swartz began as a programmer at a very young age and he helped co-found the website reddit. He then focused himself on helping bring public access to the public domain, which got Swartz into trouble. He was arrested for using the servers
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We Are Legion tells the history of “hacktivism,” the recent movement in which activist acts are done by a group of individuals through the internet. The main focus of the film is group “Anonymous.” A very interesting aspect of this history is that Anonymous started out as essentially online pranksters with no political agenda. Eventually they would become
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