Swartzism v0.0.2: packaging Aaron Swartz's access-to-knowledge doctrine for the post-AI era
kingslyj · x · 2026-10-15
A new RFC-style document, Swartzism v0.0.2, distills Aaron Swartz's 2008 dictum — "Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves" — into five axioms and one boundary, arguing his doctrine of access and rights is more relevant than ever in the post-AI era.
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