Grief And Anger At Aaron Swartz’s Memorial
The information activist was “doomed to be just Aaron,” recalls a friend. But a prosecutor was “hellbent on destroying his life.”
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MIT Professors Were Divided On Aaron Swartz’s Actions
A survey of MIT professors conducted in 2011 reveals conflicted support for Swartz’s ideals and his raid of the JSTOR online archive of academic documents. “I am sympathetic to his goals, but disgusted by his methods.”
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Prosecutor’s Husband Defends Push To Jail Internet Activist
Tom Dolan blasts Aaron Swartz’s family for pointing a finger at his wife, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz. Dolan, an IBM executive, offers the first defense from the prosecution side as Swartz’s defenders demand Ortiz’s firing. UPDATE: Dolan has deleted his Twitter account.
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Internet Activist’s Prosecutor Linked To Another Hacker’s Death
Prosecutor Stephen Heymann has been blamed for contributing to Swartz’s suicide. Back in 2008, young hacker Jonathan James killed himself in the midst of a federal investigation led by the same prosecutor.
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Listen To A 14-Year-Old Aaron Swartz Predict The Future Of The Internet
Stunning, from 2001. Social media, the semantic web, and pragmatism about artificial intelligence.
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Iranian Government Promotes Aaron Swartz Conspiracy Theories
Extremists on the Internet have cottoned on to the idea that the Obama administration had Aaron Swartz killed. There is no evidence for this.
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Aaron Swartz Refused To Be Labeled
Years prior to his death, Swartz, the co-author of the first RSS specification, addressed his sexuality head on in an essay titled “Why I Am Not Gay.”
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Aaron Swartz, Internet Activist, Commits Suicide
Swartz was the co-author of the first RSS specification, an instrumental part in creating Reddit, and co-founder of the Advocacy group Demand Progress. He was 26.
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A Chat With Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz is the third “co-founder” of Reddit who was fired after Conde Nast acquired the web aggregator site. He isn’t even listed on Reddit as a “Reddit Alum”. He now works for Google and was the blogger behind Google Weblog. View Image ›
