Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz the ‘Internet Martyr’

BBC World News explains the achievements and failures of Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and hero to many. People give their first-person accounts on their opinions of Aaron Swartz and the lawsuits against him. Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and internet activist was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS; the organization, Creative Commons; the website framework web.py; and the social news site, Reddit. On July 11, 2011, Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer.

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