It has been precisely twelve months on account that Aaron Swartz, web pioneer and one of the most original founders of Reddit, dedicated suicide on the age of 26 in New York City. To mark the anniversary, the first clip for a documentary about Swartz referred to as “The Internet’s Personal Boy” was launched. And it accommodates some prescient feedback about NSA surveillance, which has dominated the information over the last yr because of Edward Snowden’s leaks.

“It’s shocking to assume that the accountability is so lax that they don’t even have sort of general data about how giant the spying program is,” Swartz says of the NSA in the documentary clip. “If the answer is, ‘Oh, we’re spying on so many people we will’t presumably even rely them,’ then that’s much of people.” He provides that the fact that the agency can’t put any number on the quantity of people their surveillance reaches is “frightening.”

The clip also covers Swartz’s involvement in the SOPA blackout protest, which came about in January of 2012. A bunch of internet activists have deemed February 11th, 2014 “The Day We Battle Again”, a good way to feature online protest towards mass surveillance in Swartz’s honor.

At the time of his dying, Swartz was dealing with up to 50 years in jail for downloading academic journal articles from MIT’s servers. As the Washington Put up’s Andrea Peterson pointed out as of late, the Laptop Fraud and Abuse Act, which dates back to 1986 and it viewed as out of date by a lot of Swartz’s allies, remains unchanged twelve months later.

As a tribute of varieties to Swartz, the crew Nameless hacked MIT’s web site late final night, posting the message under to promote subsequent month’s protest:

Watch the documentary clip under, by the use of Luminant Media:

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