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Keeping The Republic
“We can’t wait for some deus ex machina to save our republic. Our republic is ours to save. Or better, it is only ours if we save it.”
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Who and what was Aaron Swartz?
Persecuted little guy, or powerful revolutionary – what sort of wunderkind was Aaron Swartz? By Ed Lake
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Brewster Kahle: Plea Bargaining as Torture
An excerpt from Brewster Kahle's presentation at Aaron Swartz Day, November 8, 2014, at the Internet Archive in San Francisco
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The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills
In every country in the world, male suicides outnumber female. Will Storr asks why.
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The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police
This activist demanded millions of surveillance videos from the Seattle police. They handed him the data — and a job.
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BitTorrent’s DHT Turns 10 Years Old
DHT, the much misunderstood, frequently maligned, yet somewhat critical aspect of Bittorrent turned ten recently. Launched initially by the Azureus client (now Vuze), BitTorrent Inc.’s version joined its mainline client a few weeks later. Now, a decade on, DHT underpins much of the BitTorrent world. This is its history.
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Mayday PAC’s Benjamin Singer Explains How You can Help Reform American Politics
Larry Lessig’s Mayday PAC is a SuperPac that is working to eliminate the inherent corruption of having a government run almost entirely by people who manage to raise -- or have their "non-connected" SuperPACs raise -- most of the money they need to run their campaigns... [Video]
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Sci-Hub Tears Down Academia’s “Illegal” Copyright Paywalls
In a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers, Sci-Hub.org is facing millions of dollars in damages. However, the site has no intentions of backing down and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
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Hunter S. Thompson [with Studs Terkel] on Outlaws
“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson in 1967.
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Hacking the Digital and Social System
When you live in a totalitarian, controlled and “happy” society, and you want to be a hacker, you have to hack the social system first. Being just an engineer doesn’t cut it, you have to be a hypocrite, dissident and a smuggler at the same time. That’s the motto of my personal story, which starts in Yugoslavia, and ends in Serbia. No, I didn’t move, I’m still in Belgrade, only the political borders have changed... By Voja Antonic.
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Aaron Swartz Interview Video: Months Before His Suicide, He Warned Corporations Could Censor the Internet
An interview of Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who committed suicide, has been released. He warned of internet censorship by private and government actors, months before his legal fight. By Gabriel Rodriguez. (April 30, 2013)
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Language of Protest
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees. By Scott Jaschik.
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The CFAA reaches the Supreme Court, sort of
Next week, the Supreme Court will heard argument in Musacchio v. United States, a case involving the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The case is only tangentially related to the hot-button disputes about the CFAA, but it might touch on those issues. By Orin Kerr.
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Remembering Aaron Swartz
Chelsea Manning reviews “The Boy Who Changed the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz.”
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Dutch universities plan Elsevier boycott — will this be a game changer or will publisher profits remain unaffected?
Led by vice chancellors, Dutch universities have recently announced plans for a country-wide boycott of the academic publisher Elsevier. Such a boycott has the potential to be a significant game changer in the relationship between the research community and the world’s largest academic publisher. But how will it affect open access momentum in the UK and around the world?
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An honest thief
How free-culture pioneer Aaron Swartz fought for the free exchange of information, and lost. By Justin Peters.
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The Trials of Aaron Swartz
A collection of Swartz’s writings is a record of a mind thinking, beautifully, against itself. By Ava Kofman. (Feb. 3)
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MIT Media Lab Launched Disobedience Award, Funded By Reid Hoffman
It will go to a person or group engaged in what we believe is excellent disobedience for the benefit of society. The disobedience that we would like to call out is the kind that seeks to change society in a positive way, and is consistent with a set of key principles. The principles include non-violence, creativity, courage, and taking responsibility for one’s actions.
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Everything Is Broken
“So the question I put to hackers, cryptographers, security experts, programmers, and so on was this: What’s the best option for people who can’t download new software to their machines? The answer was unanimous: nothing.” By Quinn Norton. (May 20, 2014)
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Chelsea Manning’s Statement for the Fourth Annual Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon
As read to the crowd at Aaron Swartz Day, at the Internet Archive, San Francisco, November 5, 2016.
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