Aaron Swartz’s Brilliant Life and Tragic Death. In the photograph, it seems, nothing is wrong.
He is kneeling in the front row, sitting back on his heels, hands folded in his lap. His cheeks are flecked with two-day stubble, and his thick brown hair, often a shaggy mess, is tamed and parted to the right. He is one of 30 people in the picture, a group of progressive online activists who had convened that day – January 9th, 2013 – for a summit in Holmes, New York, a bucolic country town 70 miles north of Manhattan. He never much enjoyed posing for photos: The best images of him – like those that would appear a few days later in newspapers and websites around the world – tended to be taken when he was otherwise engaged, either making a point or mulling over a point that needed to be made.
Still, when everyone gathered that Wednesday evening after dinner to sit for an impromptu portrait in the wood-paneled cabin, he was game, relaxed, nestling in with the others without complaint. New Aaron Swartz Documentary Continues His Crusade for Digital Freedom. Photo: Noah Berger/Courtesy Sundance Institute PARK CITY, Utah – If there’s one takeaway from the documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last week, it’s the overwhelming sense of what could have been.
Prior to his death a year ago this month, Aaron Swartz was facing federal hacking charges, but he was also a strong voice in political activism online. He cofounded Demand Progress. He helped stop SOPA. He warned people about government spying. That’s what makes The Internet’s Own Boy so poignant. “All of this is unbelievably hard for us, but Aaron is dead, there is nothing we can do about that. This sort of reaction is what director Brian Knappenberger was expecting, even hoping for. Knappenberger’s commitment to making the content of the film open and accessible has made it a bit harder to sell his film at Sundance, however. Hacker and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz dies. Aaron Swartz, Internet Activist, Dies at 26. An uncle, Michael Wolf, said that Mr.
Swartz, 26, had apparently hanged himself, and that a friend of Mr. Swartz’s had discovered the body. At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the nearly ubiquitous tool that allows users to subscribe to online information. He later became an Internet folk hero, pushing to make many Web files free and open to the public. Charges in the case, including wire fraud and computer fraud, were pending at the time of Mr. “Aaron built surprising new things that changed the flow of information around the world,” said Susan Crawford, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York who served in the Obama administration as a technology adviser. Mr. The Tech, a newspaper of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported Mr. Mr. He formed a company that merged with Reddit, the popular news and information site. But he also found trouble when he took part in efforts to release information to the public that he felt should be freely available.
Internet prodigy, activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide. Aaron Swartz, the Internet political activist who co-wrote the initial specification for RSS, was found dead at age 26.
Swartz's family says federal prosecutors and MIT "contributed to his death" Swartz, 26, was found Friday after he hung himself, ME's office and his family saysHe helped pioneer the Internet's icons of RSS and Reddit at a young ageSwartz then became an aggressive Internet activist, landing him in legal trouble Share your thoughts on CNN iReport. (CNN) -- Aaron Swartz, an Internet savant who at a young age shaped the online era by co-developing RSS and Reddit and later became a digital activist, has committed suicide. Swartz's body was found Friday evening in Brooklyn, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman with the New York medical examiner's office. The 26-year-old had hanged himself in his apartment. His family and partner said they were "in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his passing.
" Click through to see people who passed away in 2013. Dr. Paul F. Rep. Gen. The inspiring heroism of Aaron Swartz. (updated below)Aaron Swartz, the computer programmer and internet freedom activist, committed suicide on Friday in New York at the age of 26.
As the incredibly moving remembrances from his friends such as Cory Doctorow and Larry Lessig attest, he was unquestionably brilliant but also - like most everyone - a complex human being plagued by demons and flaws. For many reasons, I don't believe in whitewashing someone's life or beatifying them upon death. But, to me, much of Swartz's tragically short life was filled with acts that are genuinely and, in the most literal and noble sense, heroic.
I think that's really worth thinking about today. At the age of 14, Swartz played a key role in developing the RSS software that is still widely used to enable people to manage what they read on the internet. Death of internet activist Aaron Swartz prompts flood of Twitter tributes. The death of Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder and internet freedom activist who is reported to have killed himself in New York on Friday, prompted a flood of tributes on Twitter.
Given Swartz's status as a committed and prominent advocate for online freedom, it was fitting that Tim Berners-Lee was among those to honour him. The inventor of the world wide web was one of many friends, colleagues and supporters who took to social media to pay their respects. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web. Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26. We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss.
But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn’t just a sentiment; it’s literally true. Worthy, important causes will surface without a champion equal to their measure. Technological problems will go unsolved, or be solved a little less brilliantly than they might have been. And that’s just what we know. The world is robbed of a half-century of all the things we can’t even imagine Aaron would have accomplished with the remainder of his life. Aaron Swartz, American hero. Paul Graham, the founder of angel investing firm Y Combinator, has mentored generations of Silicon Valley whiz kids.
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