The Internet's Own Boy Analysis

The film The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz shows Aaron’s side of the story and how he was not the man that the government tried to make him out to be. He was a man that had many ideas and views for how the world should be change. He saw the flaws to the systems that he wanted to fix. However the government made him out to be a hacktivist that sought out to take down the system and creating anarchy.
Aaron believed that knowledge should be free and that it was stupid the way that we had to pay to access things that should be available to all. He stated that the colleges pays so that we could access articles for learning but then we have to pay again in order to gain the access to them. This also means that there are people from other counties which cannot afford to access this articles. Without access to these things they miss out on human knowledge which should never happen because it stops the development of the

As well as to correct the injustice of the government its treatment of innocent people. It also was able to change how they were keeping scholarly articles to themselves and charging individuals for access to these articles. The film Director Brian Knappenberger gives an example about how a fourteen year old boy had access to scholarly articles in high school and through the knowledge of the articles he was able to come up with a way to early diagnosed pancreatic cancer before it was too late. Thanks to Aaron this achievement was possible because Aaron died believing that knowledge should not be limited to the amount of people that can access it but to the whole world because anyone can make a difference. This show how right Aaron was in his way of thinking because without access to knowledge then nothing would ever be possible. Though none of this would have been possible if it Aaron did not challenge a broken system