JSTOR was charging fees for access, but NOT paying royalties to the content creators. A non profit that keeps the pay of its executives and officers on the down low.
The social justice this young man sought was the end of the featherbedding of the government-academe-corporate troika.
That the public have access to the public commons they paid for.
How much was JSTOR charging and how much money did it cost to publish the content?
Go back to the time before the internet. Did hard copies of journals cost money or did taxpayers just get a copy for free???