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Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 12, 2013 @01:26AM from the rest-in-peace dept.

maijc writes "Computer activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide yesterday in New York City. He was 26 years old. Swartz was 'indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with the intent to distribute them.' He is best known for co-authoring the widely-used RSS 1.0 specification when he was 14, and as one of the early co-owners of Reddit."

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Re:Why is this not major news on Reddit? by ohnocitizen · 2013-01-12 01:55 · Score: 5, Informative

Incorrect: Reddit Cofounder RIP. Front page. 1294 votes and climbing. Submitted 4 hours ago. 84 comments vs the 24 here.
Re:Someone's got their priorities all wrong by Desler · 2013-01-12 02:16 · Score: 5, Informative

Kill a person: 10 years in prison.
No, it's more like:
First-degree murder: Manadatory death sentence or life-imprisonment
Second-degree murder: Manadatory minimum 10-years to life inprisonment.
C. Doctorow on A. Swartz by Organic+Brain+Damage · 2013-01-12 03:16 · Score: 5, Informative

This was written by someone who knew Mr. Swartz. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html