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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. nymag.com › news › featuresThe Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz -- New York Magazine ...

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   At his funeral in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, where he was born and raised, the hundreds of mourners were a mix of members of family and Aaron’s far-flung networks, including some...

3. www.theverge.com › 2013/1/22 › 3898584Memory to myth: tracing Aaron Swartz through the 21st century

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   Jan 22, 2013 · His father, Robert Swartz, had started a small software company, "Mark Williams" (after Aaron’s grandfather), that made a Unix clone and C compilers and debuggers for IBM PCs.

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4. www.latimes.com › nation › la-xpm-2013-jan-15-la-naAaron Swartz was 'killed by the government,' father tells ...

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   Jan 15, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet genius, was eulogized on Tuesday as a person who wanted to make the world better but was hounded into killing himself by harsh government policies.

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5. www.bbc.com › news › world-us-canada-21001452Aaron Swartz, internet freedom activist, dies aged 26 - BBC

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   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...

6. www.rollingstone.com › culture › culture-newsAaron Swartz's Brilliant Life and Tragic Death - Rolling Stone

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   Feb 15, 2013 · He is one of 30 people in the picture, a group of progressive online activists who had convened that day – January 9th, 2013 – for a summit in Holmes, New York, a bucolic country town 70 miles...

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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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   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 source?

   • "WikiLeaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity". The Verge. Archived from the original on April 11, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2023. ^ "WikiLeaks says Aaron Swartz may have been a 'source' ". CNET. Archived from the original on March 11, 2023. Retrieved March 11, 2023. ^ "Terms and Conditions of Use". JSTOR.

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   Did the Internet mourn Aaron Swartz if he died?

   • Years before he hanged himself in his Crown Heights apartment, the hacker, writer, and activist Aaron Swartz used to debate with his then-girlfriend Quinn Norton whether the Internet would mourn him if he died. It was Swartz’s stubborn belief that no one would notice or care if he died young, as he often thought he was fated to do.

   The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz - New York Magazine

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8. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › p02htzd2BBC Four - Storyville, The Internet's Own Boy, The Internet's ...

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   Images from the documentary which explores the life of internet activist Aaron Swartz.