Why The Aaron Swartz Story Matters To Us... [View all]

[WillyT]

Now I gotta admit that I was late to this story, but...

This kid, this hero, for Internet Freedom, this starry eyed optimist...

Who helped create the RSS feed at age 14, and fought against the "privatization" of the Internent...

Hung himself Friday because of the pressure from the Government.

I really really DO NOT want to hear from the "rule of law" peeps, not as long as the corruption, and the self-aggrandizing of the thieves of Wall Street and Washington D.C. still prosper.

This was a loss to us all... while those that get multi-million bonuses for failed leadership continue to roam free, and effect our very own lives.

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022185111

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022181200

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This article was amended on 13 January 2013. It originally stated that prosecutors accused Swartz of stealing scientific journals from a computer archive and making them freely available. Swartz in fact never made the articles available to the public.

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Swartz regularly blogged about his own life on the website aaronsw.com. In a post written in January 2007, he discussed the nature of suicide.

"There is a moment, immediately before life becomes no longer worth living, when the world appears to slow down and all its myriad details suddenly become brightly, achingly apparent," he wrote.

His funeral is due to take place on Tuesday in Illinois.