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Jan 12, 2013 · Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide. Aaron Swartz in 2009. One person remembered him as “a complicated prodigy.”. Michael Francis McElroy/The New York ...
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.
- January 11, 2013 (aged 26), New York City, U.S.
- Suicide by hanging
- Aaron Hillel Swartz, November 8, 1986, Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.
Jan 14, 2013 · Remembering internet activist Aaron Swartz. 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. Swartz, who suffered from depression, had reportedly found out just days before that a plea bargain deal with ...
Jan 12, 2013 · He was 14 when he co-authored RSS and later helped found the company that would become the social media website Reddit. Internet activist Aaron Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment ...
- Melisa Goh
- '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 16, 2013 · Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was "killed by the government," his father told mourners Tuesday during his son's funeral at a synagogue in north suburban Highland Park. Swartz, who help ...
Jan 14, 2013 · Internet wizard Aaron Swartz has been found dead at his Brooklyn, N.Y., home. Authorities say Swartz, who helped create the web feed format RSS, committed suicide just weeks before going to trial ...
