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Episode 12: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Speaks About Aaron Swartz’s Death And Case Pending Against Him

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On January 11, 2013, Aaron Swartz was found dead in his Crown Heights, Brooklyn, apartment in New York City. Aaron was a computer programmer, writer, archivist, political organizer, and internet activist. He co-wrote the RSS specification at age 14 and was the founder of the newsfeed site Reddit. His death is a shock to many people who knew him, especially given the fact it has been reported he committed suicide. I had the opportunity to meet him in December 2012 and invited him to come to the Congo do computer programming workshops for youth there. His response was “Sure! How do we make that happened?” This video explains a bit about who he was and why he probably killed himself. May his soul rest in peace. Rushed transcript ——- You should know that the hacker, programmer, writer and activist Aaron Swartz has died of suicide at age 26. His body was found in his apartment on Friday. Aaron was one of those preternaturally brilliant, precocious hackers who, at the age of 14, co-developed the Really Simple Syndication or RSS web protocol that is the key component of much of the web’s entire publishing infrastructure. By 19, he’d co-founded a company that would merge with Reddit, a user-generated social news site that is now one of the most highly trafficked news sites in the world. He read voraciously, uploading reviews of the dozens of books he read a year to his blog, and wrote beautifully and prolifically. He worked as a progressive activist with the group Progressive


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