Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide

Aaron Swartz, a web technologist and internet activist who worked on RSS, reddit and fought against SOPA/PIPA, committed suicide yesterday in New York City. Metafilter has a great round of some of his accomplishments.Aaron Swartz, a precocious web pioneer who advocated for free online content, was found dead in his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment of an apparent suicide. “Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his BrooklynToday (Saturday 12 January) brought the news that Aaron Swartz died yesterday, by suicide, in New York City. (A personal note: I did not know Swartz, but many people I know, who moved in the same circles and worked on related technologies, did.Aaron Swartz. philg - January 12, 2013 @ 1:23 pm · Filed under Uncategorized. I was saddened today when a friend told me that Aaron Swartz had died. A committee of programmers had

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