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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6Fzbgs_Lg
Aaron created RSS, and was an early developer of Reddit. A visionary of accessible information and information technology.
Since his death, the direction the internet has gone has been in ways that he would very much be taking issue with.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=3Q6Fzbgs_Lg
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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