[AfrICANN-discuss] Farewell to Aaron Swartz, an extraordinary hacker and activist

[Seun Ojedeji]

Thanks for sharing the information.
He will surely be missed by all those that know him.

Regards

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On Jan 13, 2013 5:40 AM, "Gideon" <gideonrop at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Aaron Swartz, an Internet savant who at a young age shaped the online era
> by co-developing RSS and Reddit and later became a digital activist, has
> passed on.
>
> Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving
> ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. His contributions
> were numerous, and some of them were indispensable. When we asked him in
> late 2010 for help in stopping COICA<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating_Online_Infringement_and_Counterfeits_Act>,
> the predecessor to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills<https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill>,
> he founded an organization called Demand Progress<http://demandprogress.org/>,
> which mobilized over a million online activists and proved to be an
> invaluable ally in winning that campaign.
>
> Read more about him here:
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/farewell-aaron-swartz
>
>
> http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/12/us/new-york-reddit-founder-suicide/index.html
>
> Gideon Rop,
> DotConnectAfrica.
>
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