Heroes do exist. Even if no one in a cape wearing spandex appears to save society when prejudice and wrongdoings occur, there are some that emerge to do just that in more discrete ways. The heroes of today go unnoticed by many and work tirelessly to protect the world from itself. When these mysterious workers are brought into the public eye, they do not receive the praise they deserve. They are, instead, attacked by those in power and labeled as threats. Aaron Swartz was one of these heroes, attempting to better society by freeing information that rightfully belongs to the people. However, he was betrayed by the very civilization he was trying to liberate. He was prosecuted for his progressive actions and not for any genuine threat to the government
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It chronicles his childhood as a computer programming prodigy from his making of a trivia game to aiding in the development Creative Commons, all before the age of fourteen. The film describes his success in founding Reddit, at nineteen, and his job held in popular culture for a time. The story then shifts to its argument of political and social corruption. At this time in Aaron’s life, he had aided in freeing public court records from the unfair Public Access to Court Electronic Records, referred to by Knappenberger as PACER. As the the documents were freed and no longered purchased by citizens, the Swartz became a person of intrest to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Then, Swartz downloaded millions of documents at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the online power JSTOR. He again was trying to free information held by some kind of authority and was arrested for it and accused of several felonies. Eventually, Swartz committed suicide in response to the stress and excessive judicial interaction. For Swartz, the focus of his whole life, was to try to free knowledge that rightly belonged to all humanity, yet he was attacked by a corrupt government. Knappenberger uses the unreasonable actions by both the FBI and the prosecutors against Swartz to promote his belief in the wrongdoing of the
It chronicles his childhood as a computer programming prodigy from his making of a trivia game to aiding in the development Creative Commons, all before the age of fourteen. The film describes his success in founding Reddit, at nineteen, and his job held in popular culture for a time. The story then shifts to its argument of political and social corruption. At this time in Aaron’s life, he had aided in freeing public court records from the unfair Public Access to Court Electronic Records, referred to by Knappenberger as PACER. As the the documents were freed and no longered purchased by citizens, the Swartz became a person of intrest to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Then, Swartz downloaded millions of documents at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the online power JSTOR. He again was trying to free information held by some kind of authority and was arrested for it and accused of several felonies. Eventually, Swartz committed suicide in response to the stress and excessive judicial interaction. For Swartz, the focus of his whole life, was to try to free knowledge that rightly belonged to all humanity, yet he was attacked by a corrupt government. Knappenberger uses the unreasonable actions by both the FBI and the prosecutors against Swartz to promote his belief in the wrongdoing of the