Aaron Swartz Suicide: Reddit Co-Founder Dead At 26

[brassmonkey]

R.I.P.

Reddit co-founder and internet activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide in New York on Friday, MIT's The Tech reports.

Swartz's death was confirmed to the newspaper by his uncle, Michael Wolf, and attorney, Elliot R. Peters.

Swartz co-founded Demand Progress, which played a key role in the fight against SOPA. He was also a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

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[_Richard_]

yea read this last night

hanging.. alrighty then

[seksi]

Joanna Angel just mentioned RSS in a talk

Showing the widespread use of technology and standards that Aaron Schwartz helped co-create - at 14 he was co-author of the RSS 1.0 Spec.

I wrote about that, with the embedded video by Joanna - in the hope that we can temper our greed for justice against copyright violators enough to not completely alienate the idealist volunteers that really create and maintain the internet.

Large legal penalties and financial judgements can make a big public example but destroy individual lives and maybe even cause backlashes that individual companies will not survive.

Just a thought: http://impeccableliberalcredentials....ay-before.html