In his article “How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground” (2011), Kevin Poulsen asserts that Aaron Swartz was an activist for contributing free online information to the public, that would usually cost people to receive. Poulsen backs up his argument by providing his audience with a background of Swartz, and his great intentions for society. Poulsens purpose in writing this article is to gain awareness of Swartz intentions in order to introduce activist like attitudes into our society. Poulsen’s tone is very mocking towards the government.