He frees information, one way or another: A Wknd interview with Carl Malamud

He starts by publicising paywall-protected public information, then reaches out to institutes to say, ‘Here’s what I did. It’s working. What do you think?’

Carl Malamud, a prolific campaigner of liberating information, has a simple modus operandi: always have a proof of concept — and skin in the game.

“When I see a member of the US Congress, and we’re talking about PACER (the Public Access to Court Electronic Records repository), it isn’t like I’m just some thinktank saying PACER should be free. I’ve got some skin in the game. I took 20 million pages of PACER and put them online. Same thing with