Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The Feds Who Wouldn't Budge

Technology's brightest minds are memorializing Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old programmer and digital rights activist who committed suicide Friday.

This Dec. 8, 2012 photo provided by ThoughtWorks shows Aaron Swartz, in New York. Friends of Swartz accuse the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of needlessly aiding a federal investigation against him. (AP Photo/ThoughtWorks, Pernille Ironside)

Page 1 of 1. Aaron Swartz accomplished much in his young life: As co-author of the RSS specification, he brought order to our blog subscriptions, and as an early member of the team that built Reddit, he created one of the largest communities on the

Tomorrow is the funeral for Aaron Swartz, the programmer and sometime activist who killed himself last Friday while facing federal trial. No one knows, or will ever really know, what caused Swartz to take his own life. But his

Nik Cubrilovic points out that people were significantly less enraged by Aaron's legal troubles just a few months ago

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The Feds Who Wouldn't Budge

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