Aaron Swartz Quotes


The adults were completely wrong.


Citations

Swartz, Aaron. "How we stopped SOPA." Freedom to Connect Conference, 21 May 2012.

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Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz
  • Born: November 8, 1986
  • Died: January 11, 2013
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Software Developer, Writer, Internet Activist

Aaron Hillel Swartz was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. He was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, and the website framework web.py, and joined the social news site Reddit six months after its founding. He was given the title of co-founder of Reddit by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham after the formation of Not a Bug, Inc. (a merger of Swartz's project Infogami and Redbrick Solutions, a company run by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman). Swartz's work also focused on civic awareness and activism. He helped launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in 2009 to learn more about effective online activism. In 2010, he became a research fellow at Harvard University's Safra Research Lab on Institutional Corruption, directed by Lawrence Lessig. He founded the online group Demand Progress, known for its campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act.