Author Topic: Another death ?  (Read 954 times)

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Another death ?
« on: January 12, 2013, 01:48:53 PM »
It seems that gun rights activists aren't the only ones dieing suddenly .

http://news.yahoo.com/tech-world-saddened-death-internet-activist-aaron-swartz-172630384.html

Aaron Swartz was one of the earliest members of the Reddit team, helped build the first RSS program, and was by all accounts a genius at a very young age. Swartz committed suicide on January 11. He was 26 years old.

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MIT's The Tech's Anne Cai and Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow first reported the news of Swartz's death. Cai confirmed it with his uncle and attorney. Swartz is probably best known for his contributions building the first RSS model when he was only a 14-year-old, and then a few years later for helping build what would become the social networking site Reddit. Swartz also founded the advocacy group Demand Progress. Swartz suffered from some personal problems and had blogged about his depression before, which you can find on his personal blog if you're so inclined to go looking. (We weren't.)

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Swartz will also possibly be remembered for breaking into MIT and downloading nearly five million documents from online archive JSTOR in order to distribute them more freely. He was charged by prosecutors in Massachusetts even after MIT and JSTOR elected not to continue with the case. 

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