Internet activist Swarz dead at 26. 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. This article is older than 60 days, which we reserve for our premium members only.You can subscribe to our premium member subscription, here. Democrasoft - Social Collaboration & Voting Platforms for Building Online Communities. Code Generator & URL shortener. Public DNS Servers. DNS (Domain Name System) servers are designed to allow networked devices such as computers, phones, and other servers to look up address records in DNS tables.
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