Liberate the world's knowledge.
Defend each person's life.
Swartzism is a doctrine of information power, built from the record of
Aaron Swartz: five axioms, an ethics of scale, one boundary — open for comment, and for forks.
Be bold with the world's knowledge. Never with a person's life.
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Today the doctrine ships — not as a finished thing, but as an opening position. Version 0.0.1 of Swartzism is published as a Request for Comments: five axioms, an ethics of scale, one boundary, five works, and a process for...
The objection to any information-liberation doctrine writes itself: if you’re for freeing data, you must be fine with leaking people’s data too. Swartzism answers with a boundary that does not move:
The word does not exist in the record. Aaron Swartz never named a movement, never wrote a manifesto that founded an “-ism”, never claimed disciples. “Swartzism” is a construction — a name for the question: what does the record imply?...