Aaron Swartz dead at 26
January 12, 2013 1:07 AM Subscribe
Aaron Swartz, Co-founder of Reddit, co-author of the RSS 1.0 spec, founder of Demand Progress, former fellow at Harvard's Center for Ethics and, perhaps, in some ways, best known as a digital activist arrested in 2011 for attempting to download the complete JSTOR archives has committed suicide, Aged 26.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Let's go ahead and go with the more detailed FPP posted a few minutes later. -- taz
Too young.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:13 AM on January 12, 2013
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:13 AM on January 12, 2013
The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0 specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills SOPA/PIPA.”
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posted by infini at 1:13 AM on January 12, 2013
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posted by infini at 1:13 AM on January 12, 2013
Do we flag this one as the double although it was the first FPP chronologically?
posted by infini at 1:15 AM on January 12, 2013
posted by infini at 1:15 AM on January 12, 2013
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