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Micah Lee at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

When I was thinking about what I would talk about last night, I was reading more about Aaron. Unfortunately, I never got to meet him before he died, but I realized that he passed away on January 11, 2013, and that was actually the same day that I first heard from Edward Snowden.

“The Human Element”; Chelsea Manning for Aaron Swartz Day 2015

Consider the paradox that technology has provided for us. We seem more diverse and open as a society, but isn’t it also the case that we are more homogeneous and insecure than we ever have been in the last century or so?

Alison Macrina at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

The whole Library Freedom Project, everything that we do is very deeply inspired by Aaron’s spirit, his work in resistance, his legacy. And every day that we go into libraries and teach practical privacy trainings, I feel like Aaron is very much present in all that we do.

Giovanni Damiola at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

Tonight I am very happy to say that Open Library is healthy, with more than 9 million visitors every month, serving and reaching the metadata of more than 25 million editions, 6 million authors, and we even serve 7 million covers through an API.

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