I was browsing a Peertube instance earlier and stumbled upon a copy of The Internet's Own Boy, a documentary about Aaron Swartz.

I haven't seen it before so I decided to give it a watch.

By the end of it I was in tears, I don't think I've seen anything in a while that made me cry like that.

Also, I had no idea he co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification, wow.

https://peertube.video/videos/watch/04af977f-4201-4697-be67-a8d8cae6fa7a

I'm still thinking about what I saw in that documentary

The more I think about it, the more I realize how utterly spineless MIT was through the whole thing.

"choosing to remain neutral"
"even if we said anything, the prosecution would have continued"

A colleague was being stepped on the neck by the boots of injustice and you choose to..stay neutral? Fuck off.