Swartz's fight for a free internet

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We know that several people tried to seduce this hero of today's world, including Google, but this Robin Hood of cyberspace did not want commitments, positions, salaries or pompous offices.

Swartz dreamed of a shared world, a world where ideas were within everyone's reach. His dream became his struggle, and his struggle, tireless by the way, became his nightmare. A few years ago he was arrested by the police when he went to pick up a laptop that he had hidden in a closet covered by a homeless person's switzerland mobile database boxes, from where he supposedly connected to MIT and downloaded tons of information with a very simple code, uploading it to the cloud for everyone to access. Sharing. It was academic information, mostly subsidized with public funds, and he considered it fair that it should be freely accessible. For this act he faced a sentence of up to 35 years in prison, even though MIT and JSTOR, owners of said information, had reached an agreement with him. It was the prosecution that followed its inexorable path, since stealing information is a crime, that is what the law says.

The tragedy of a free spirit
Depression, which always knocked on his door, and this tireless war he waged against his own and others' monsters, ended in a lost battle that took his own life. His vital energy was exhausted, at least the one that helped him to bear his sorrows and his sleepless nights in this world, although part of his energy is still alive.

In some dark room, somewhere in the real world, and also in the virtual one, there are other Aaron Swartzes, with other MacBook Pros turned on. Small lights in a world that today remains greedy and full of avarice, small stars that illuminate this dark sky that Aaron has also shared with us.