Aaron Swartz Reddit internet activist commits suicide

Internet activist Swartz dead at 26

Published: 13 Jan 2013 at 04.51
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NEW YORK - Authorities say a co-founder of the social news website Reddit and activist who fought to make online content free to the public has been found dead.

A spokeswoman for New York’s medical examiner says 26-year-old Aaron Swartz hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment and was found Friday.

Swartz was a prodigy who as a young teenager helped create RSS. He co-founded Reddit and directed the political action group Demand Progress that campaigns against internet censorship.

In 2011, he was arrested in Boston and charged with stealing millions of scientific journals from a computer archive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Swartz pleaded not guilty. His federal trial on computer fraud charges was to begin next month. If convicted, he could have faced decades in prison and a fortune in fines.

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siamitude
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Discussion 4 : 13 Jan 2013 at 11.524
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Thailand needs more Aaron Swartz
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Discussion 3 : 13 Jan 2013 at 11.443
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It's a shame so many bright kids put their efforts in to Internet related fields rather than exploring how we can get of oil dependancy or clean water etc.

The Internet is a tool and it's accessories are just money spinners for the latest must have / fashion IT product / accessory to push on the masses, push in to debt, supporting the banks lending excesses, and encouraging dependancy on useless kit and reinforcing our debt servitude culture.

Then again had he created an alternative for oil and upset the petro-dollar he would have been even less popular.
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Discussion 2 : 13 Jan 2013 at 09.162
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@spiceman

You often make a lot of sense sir, but please spare us the biblical quotations.

If anything this young man was overly attached to his moral view of the world ("right" or "wrong"), and it seems the depths of his soul and not some lack thereof drove him to despair.

The existential anguish of the exceptionally brilliant is always lost on religious zealots.
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Discussion 1 : 13 Jan 2013 at 07.481
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"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Matthew 16:26)
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