The Internet Own Boy Aaron Swartz Analysis

The film The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is about how the real life of Aaron who he really was and not the man the government tried to make him out to be. He was a kind man who had many ideas and views for how the world should be in order to have progress. Aaron Swartz saw how cruel the educational resources and wanted to fix the system. However, the government made Swartz look like the enemy who was a hacktivist that sought out to take down the system and steal from the government.
Aaron Swartz believed that academic journals should be free and that it was injudicious the way that we had to pay to access things that should be available to all. In the film “The Internet Own Boy” Swartz stated that, “Colleges pays so that …show more content…
The government were not able to get any of these members at the time, so they needed someone that they could get to make the others fear them. They took what they had on Aaron Swartz and exaggerated his punishment so that they could calm a paranoid public. Even though Jstor had already dropped the case because Swartz returned the stolen articles, but the government could not let this go out of fear of what the public would think of them if they just let this go. Though for the most part more people were on Aaron’s side and believed that what there was injustice happening to him because this should have never even gotten to this point. Another one of the crimes the government wanted to punish him was as said in the film “he made public knowledge public” which is ridicules when you think about. How can the government get mad at someone for making something public when it is supposed to be public? Again this just illustrates even more how messed up the system is and why it Swartz wanted to change it. However because of the government pushing Aaron Swartz so hard on this case it made Aaron’s point of the flaws within the system more abundantly clear then they had have been, which help create a solution to some of