WikiLeaks and Whistleblowers
The whistleblower I chose was Aaron Swartz. Aaron was a very skilled internet pioneer that created the site Reddit and hacked into JSTOR. He was able to download over 4 million articles but was arrested and subjected to over 1 million dollars in fines in 2011. Unlike many other hackers, Swartz did not leak government files, he released to the public articles that were already available to subscribers. My opinion on this specific case is that it seems really strange that he would release information that was already available to people if they paid for a subscription. It makes it seem like he just enjoyed to hack things and did not do it for the public's sake. He had no consideration for journalists. This can relate to the journalism world because this hacker affected the work of all the journalists on that site. Now that all the information was leaked, there would be not use in people paying for a subscription. It seems to be hard for journalists to get money for their work so this
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