Remembering Aaron Swartz

I may be alone, but quite frankly they can pry my open source browser from my cold, dead, keyboard chafed hands.And if giving up Netflix is the cost, well there are other means of watching films.

We’ve lost battles before, The Telecom Reform Act, the DCMA. And we’ve bounced back, and turned their own weapons against them, and won victories. Precious few, but ones that will last.

All over the world people fought ACTA and its clones, demanding why their governments could not tell their people what they were signing in their name. Not hackers and activists, but ordinary citizens asking hard questions at their dinner tables. The forces that would place the net under tyranny are over-reaching, and the further they push, the harsher the public will be when they realise what’s happened.

Our day will come.