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“If Aaron Swartz were alive, he’d be on the front lines, fighting against a world in which governments observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action,” writes the organizers of The Day We Fight Back, calling for action on Feb. 11. 

Amy Goodman discusses Swartz’s case and a new film out about him in her weekly podcast.

His brother, Noah Swartz, tells her: “I think Aaron’s message that we can all take with us is that … we can see the change we want to see in the world by participating, rather than feeling helpless and useless.”

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The Internet'€™s Own Boy: Film on Aaron Swartz Captures Late Activist'€™s Struggle for Online Freedom
One year ago this month, the young Internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer Aaron Swartz took his own life. Live from the Sundance Film Festival, Democracy Now! looks at the new film, “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz” and talks to Swartz’s father and brother, his lawyer, and director Brian Knappenberger.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has obtained documents revealing that the FBI and IRS may be reading emails and other electronic communications of U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant. This comes just as reports have emerged that the Obama administration is considering approving an overhaul of government surveillance of the Internet. The New York Times reported the new rules would make it easier to wiretap users of web services such as instant messaging. “The FBI wants to be able to intercept every kind of possible communication,” says attorney Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU’s Speech Privacy and Technology Project, on Democracy Now! today. “The FBI basically wants to require all of these companies to rewrite their code in order to enable more government surveillance. … And in order to accomplish that, they would make the whole internet less secure.”

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Does capitalism influence the role the Internet plays in society? Robert McChesney, a longtime media-reform advocate and co-founder of Free Press, thinks so. McChesney writes in his new book, “Digital Disconnect,” that “the ways capitalism works and does not work determine the role the Internet might play in society.” Watch his interview on Democracy Now! and tell us, do you agree or disagree?

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