The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986-- January 11, 2013) was an American computer developer, company owner, writer, political organizer and also Web hacktivist which was entailed in the development of the internet feed style RSS and the Markdown posting style, the firm Creative Commons, the site structure and the social news site, Reddit, where he came to be a friend after its combining with his business, Infogami. He dedicated self-destruction while under federal cost for data-theft, a prosecution that was determined by his relative as being "the item of a criminal-justice system swarming with intimidation and also prosecutorial overreach". Swartz's work furthermore focused on behavioral science, civic awareness and advocacy. In 2010 he came to be a research study other at Harvard College's Safra Research Laboratory on Institutional Corruption, routed by Lawrence Lessig.