A few days ago it was 4 years ago Aaron Swartz died. For the ones who have no clue what he did for the web. See his manifesto or watch a docu about his life.
The struggle for the freedom of information and/or the web is still going on. It is good to know some of the stuff that already happened in this struggle. And who we have lost.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of
private corporations.
His manifesto
https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt
And the docu