Brian Knappenberger’s previous documentary was We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, and he stays in the digital domain for his latest project. Telling the story of coder, writer and eventual information activist Aaron Swartz The Internet’s Own Boy is a timely, and necessary given the tragic circumstance, evaluation of a most critical social justice battle.
The legacy of Aaron Swartz is the fight which is continuing right now. Barely a day passes without a new privacy panic or some further demonisation of the so-called hacktivists in the press. A bill named after Swartz is currently stalled in Congress, and looks unlikely to achieve its aim of updating the somewhat draconian US hacking legislation. This film captures why it is important that Aaron’s story does not languish like Aaron’s Law.
We’ve got the first look at the UK poster you’ll be seeing on these shores for Knappenberger’s film which is seeing its release on the 29th of August 2014. Check it out below.
