The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

an intensely powerful and scathing indictment of the way the criminal justice system handles hacktivism, the internets own boy is a very well-made documentary that does a lot toward making the case that aaron swartz was unjustly prosecuted to the point of his eventual suicide. while the story is one-sided, it is noted that attempts were made to get the other side and no one wanted to participate so they did their due diligence. archival footage of swartz and interviews with family, friends and contemporaries are well-mixed into one of the better docufilms of 2014. read more