Sukh Sidhu The Internet’s Own Boy Summary: The Internet’s Own Boy is the story of Aaron Swartz often referred as “internet’s brightest light”. The movie discuss about Aaron Swartz himself, what kind of person he was, his achievements, and also uncovers the governmental plot held against Swartz, which eventually led to his suicidal death. Swartz was very bright as a young kid, his intelligence was much more accelerated than other kids, and loved the zest of computers. At a very young age, Swartz begin gathering information on computers most adults weren’t capable of and created his own website at only the age of 12. Swartz was also very different from other kids of his age and neglected the way of society, so he was never fit for school …show more content…
Horrified of our nation’s government which was created for the people by the people. I sort already that the knowledge of our government being corrupt and powerful, but I had no idea what extent the government can go to, to basically do anything. It really sets us back to Aristotle time, in the time of no democracy, where if you question the government and their way of work, one will get severe punishment for it and Swartz is the perfect example of this. It is really scary how one’s normal lives can be shifted upside down by the one thing that suppose to protect us, our government. I was in the knowledge that the laws are suppose to protect us from any harm. It really makes me think I would ever want to stand up for something that I think is unjust and try to fight it against the government, I can end up like Swartz. But I also believe the power of our government is like an Elephant fighting an Ant, who is humongous in size and can just stomp the Ant, but if the ant realizes its advantage and sneak into the truck, the damage to the elephant is catastrophic. So if the general population as ants doesn’t realize it’s power, we will continue to be manipulated by the government and will face much more severe consequence than Aaron Swartz