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“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.”
— Aaron Swartz, Programmer and early Reddit team member; open-access activist2008-07
- Speaker
- Aaron Swartz
- Role
- Programmer and early Reddit team member; open-access activist
- Date
- 2008-07
- Type
- other
Context
The opening lines of Swartz's "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto," written in Italy in 2008. Swartz, who joined Reddit when it merged with his startup, later faced federal charges over bulk-downloading JSTOR articles and died by suicide in 2013.