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Op-Ed: We Need More Aaron Swartz-Style Hacktivism

from National Public Radio
March 11, 2013

When Internet activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide, he faced federal charges for illegally downloading and releasing articles from JSTOR, the digital library of academic journals. Northwestern University professor Peter Ludlow says Swartz was right to fight for public access to scholarship.

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  • Talk of the Nation, March 11, 2013
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