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  • BIRTH 08/11/1986
  • DEATH 11/01/2013
  • Country United States
  • MOVIES 2

Aaron Swartz

Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist who was involved in the development of the web feedformat RSS and the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site, Reddit, in which he became a partner after its merger with his company, Infogami. He committed suicide while under federal indictment for data-theft, a prosecution that was characterized by his family as being "the product of a criminal-justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach".

Aaron Swartz

Movies (2)

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron…
Self
Killswitch
Killswitch
Self