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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Aaron_SwartzAaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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   Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [2] [23] into a Jewish family. [24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1] [25] He was an atheist. [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.

2. www.ft.com › content › 0664e1e2-cdbd-3550-b273-08496In the Picture: the life and death of Aaron Swartz

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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.

3. www.newyorker.com › culture › culture-deskThe New Aaron Swartz Documentary at Sundance

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   Jan 21, 2014 · The footage of Swartz growing older and more handsome anchors the film, his stridency belied by his large, needy eyes. Swartz grew up in an age of total capture, meaning that there is video ...

4. www.reddit.com › r › explainlikeimfiveELI5: Who was Aaron Swartz and what is the controversy over ...

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   But in order to check out those books, he had to go behind the desk, which was a no-no. So what happened is that Aaron got in trouble with JSTOR, the library, and with MIT, who is pretty much the librarian. Eventually, JSTOR decided they didn't think Aaron did anything wrong, and didn't want to try anymore.

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6. www.economist.com › obituary › 2013/01/19Aaron Swartz - The Economist

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   Jan 19, 2013 · His days were spent hunched in his bedroom over his MacBook Pro, his short-sighted eyes nearly grazing the screen (why, he asked himself, weren’t laptop screens at eye level?), in a litter of...

7. newrepublic.com › article › 112418Aaron Swartz Suicide: Why He Broke Into JSTOR and MIT | The ...

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   Fewer than four months later, police arrested Swartz after a surveillance camera caught him breaking into a computer closet, from which he had "hard-wired" into the MIT network. In July of 2011,...

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   Who was Aaron Swartz?

   • "Aaron Swartz Remembered as Internet Activist who Changed the World". Patch. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2015. ^ abcGlaser, April (November 7, 2014).

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   Did Aaron Swartz like reading books?

   • For most of us, small talk and repetitious homework are mere annoyances, but for Aaron Swartz they were torture. As a freshman at Stanford, he preferred reading books to sitting with people in the dining hall, and, when asked if he was abnormal, told people that he found them abnormal for not preferring books.

   The New Aaron Swartz Documentary at Sundance

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   Does 'the Internet's own boy' fight for reform after Aaron Swartz's death?

   • " 'The Internet's Own Boy' fights for reform after Aaron Swartz's death". The Verge. Archived from the original on June 17, 2018. Retrieved August 29, 2017. ^ Matheson, Whitney (June 28, 2014). "Internet's Own Boy: Tech activist's legacy". USA Today. p. B8. ^ " 'The Internet's Own Boy' Is a Powerful Homage to Aaron Swartz". Mashable.

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   Where is Aaron Swartz Memorial?

   • "Aaron Swartz Memorial in Washington DC". Crooked Timber. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2013. ^ abc Gross, Grant, Lawmakers pledge to change hacking law during Swartz memorial Archived November 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, InfoWorld, February 5, 2013. Retrieved February 5, 2013.

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   How old was Aaron Swartz when he died?

   • "Aaron Swartz dies at 26; Internet folk hero founded Reddit". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 13, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2020. ^ " 'Repairing the World' Was Aaron Swartz's Calling". Haaretz. Archived from the original on March 4, 2021. Retrieved September 19, 2021. ^ abcSwartz, Aaron (September 27, 2007).

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   Was Aaron Swartz a felony?

   • A felony is a weighty thing for anyone, but Swartz, serious to a fault, saw conviction as a mark that would stain his life indelibly. There is some commonality between Aaron Swartz and Christopher McCandless, who died in the Alaskan outback, the subject of Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild.”

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   Mar 8, 2014 · The Internet’s Own Boy is thorough history detailing the charges and the ethical implications of Swartz’s trajectory, but also a cautionary tale not to disassociate Internet use with legal freedoms. More than one participant refers to the pressure on Swartz as example-making.