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On January 11th, almost exactly two years from the day he was arrested, Aaron Swartz ended his life by hanging himself in his Brooklyn apartment.
Death, funeral, and memorial gatherings. External videos. Aaron Swartz Memorial at The Great Hall of Cooper Union on YouTube, (transcript) Aaron Swartz Memorial at the Internet Archive on YouTube, (partial transcript) DC Memorial: Darrell Issa, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Alan Grayson on YouTube.
- '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 13, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, a celebrated internet freedom activist and early developer of the website Reddit, has died at 26. The activist and programmer took his life in his New York apartment, a relative...
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.
Jan 13, 2013 · In the months after Aaron Swartz’s suicide in January 2013, members of the media spent hundreds of hours meditating on how a 26-year-old programmer, hacker, and political organizer could have...
Jan 13, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, a computer programmer and ardent internet activist who played a key role opposing 2011 anti-piracy legislation, was found dead on Friday at age 26. His family confirmed that he...
