February 5, 2013 at 10:04am 73 notes
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Source: Los Angeles Times
Aaron Swartz, Reddit co-founder and Internet activist, may revolutionize the web once again, even after his tragic suicide. Swartz, who was possibly facing decades of federal jail time for allegedly violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, killed himself earlier this year. But ahead of congressional investigations into the events leading up to his death, a memorial was held in his honor Monday in Washington, D.C. By turns, speakers at the Cannon House Office Building compared Swartz to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple founder Steve Jobs, and 20th century British programmer Alan Turing — with Swartz as yet another cybergenius whose ambitions carried him to the law’s edge. Read the full story here, and be sure to follow Matt Pearce, who has been reporting on Swartz’s death and the subsequent fallout from the very beginning. Photo: Michael Francis McElroy / New York Times

Aaron Swartz, Reddit co-founder and Internet activist, may revolutionize the web once again, even after his tragic suicide. Swartz, who was possibly facing decades of federal jail time for allegedly violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, killed himself earlier this year. But ahead of congressional investigations into the events leading up to his death, a memorial was held in his honor Monday in Washington, D.C.

By turns, speakers at the Cannon House Office Building compared Swartz to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple founder Steve Jobs, and 20th century British programmer Alan Turing — with Swartz as yet another cybergenius whose ambitions carried him to the law’s edge.

Read the full story here, and be sure to follow Matt Pearce, who has been reporting on Swartz’s death and the subsequent fallout from the very beginning.

Photo: Michael Francis McElroy / New York Times

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