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Swartz, reading response.

“What was Internet activist Aaron Swartz thinking when he downloaded 4 million articles from JSTOR (short for journal storage), a digital library of scholarly articles… Because of his suicide this month, we will never know for sure.” This was taken from the article “Aaron Swartz: Opening access to knowledge.” That had me very curious. So Mr. Swartz was downloading millions of articles, then commits suicide. Why? The article says that the internet provides amazing opportunities to open more access to knowledge, and he wanted to help. What would drive someone trying to help provide knowledge, to commit suicide? This article reminds me of the Gatekeepers theme discussed earlier in class.