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Jan 14, 2013 · A suicide is always a tragedy, but that of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz on Friday has reverberated with particular force across the internet.
Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment. [20] [21] In 2013, Swartz was inducted posthumously into the Internet Hall of Fame. [22] Early life. Swartz in 2002 with Lawrence Lessig at the launch party for Creative Commons.
Jan 11, 2023 · Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment from suicide on Jan. 11, 2013. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with the co-hosts of the Srsly Wrong podcast, Shawn Vulliez and...
- Maximillian Alvarez
Jan 12, 2023 · The alleged reason for his death was a federal trial under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for downloading millions of journal articles from the digital archive JSTOR whilst at MIT in 2011 and uploading them for free access.
- 'An Extraordinary Hacker and Activist'
- Fought For Free Online Information
- Faced 13 Felony Charges
His death prompted an outpouring of grief from prominent voices on the intersection of free speech and the Web. Swartz was "an extraordinary hacker and activist," the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an international nonprofit digital rights group based in California wrote in a tribute on its home page. He "did more than almost anyone to make the In...
Among Internet gurus, Swartz was considered a pioneer of efforts to make online information freely available. "Playing Mozart's Requiem in honor of a brave and brilliant man," tweeted Carl Malamud, an Internet public domain advocate who believes in free access to legally obtained files. Swartz aided Malamud's own effort to post federal court docume...
Experts puzzled over the arrest and argued that the result of the actions Swartz was accused of was the same as his PACER program: more information publicly available. The prosecution "makes no sense," Demand Progress Executive Director David Segal said in a statement at the time. "It's like trying to put someone in jail for allegedly checking too ...
Jan 14, 2013 · On Friday, Aaron Swartz — the 26-year-old internet innovator who helped create RSS and had a hand in the building of Reddit — was found dead in his apartment in an apparent suicide.
Jan 12, 2013 · NEW YORK (AP) _ A co-founder of Reddit and activist who fought to make online content free to the public has been found dead, authorities confirmed Saturday, prompting an outpouring of grief from...
