Is the freedom to connect like freedom of speech or like the freedom to murder . Today, we remember the pioneering Computer Programmer, social justice activist aaron swartz. At the age of 14, he helped develop rss, revolutionizing how people use the internet. By the time is 19, he co owned reddit, now one of the worlds most popular sites. He is now dead at the age of 26. On friday, he comes out just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles at mit. His parents the decisions made by prosecutors at mit contributed to his death. Today, we will hear aaron swartz in his own words. If we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change of the bill of rights, freedoms our country has been built on would suddenly be deleted. New technology instead of bringing us greater freedom would have snuffed out fundamental rights we had always taken for granted. We will play
Today, we remember the pioneering Computer Programmer, social justice activist aaron swartz. At the age of 14, he helped develop rss, revolutionizing how people use the internet. By the time is 19, he co owned reddit, now one of the worlds most popular sites. He is now dead at the age of 26. On friday, he comes out just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles at mit. His parents the decisions made by prosecutors at mit contributed to his death. Today, we will hear aaron swartz in his own words. If we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change of the bill of rights, freedoms our country has been built on would suddenly be deleted. New technology instead of bringing us greater freedom would have snuffed out fundamental rights we had always taken for granted. We will play a speech aaron that blaster is the the Harvard Law School professor lawrence less
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