Saturday 19 January 2013

INQUIRER.net: Hundreds honor information activist-online prodigy Swartz in NYC

INQUIRER.net
Philippine News for Filipinos
Hundreds honor information activist-online prodigy Swartz in NYC
Jan 20th 2013, 00:11

NEW YORK— Hundreds of friends and supporters of Aaron Swartz are gathered in New York City to pay tribute to the free-information activist and online prodigy who killed himself last week.   The 26-year-old Swartz hanged himself in his apartment in Brooklyn the month before he was to go on trial in Boston.   Federal prosecutors accused him of breaking into a computer wiring closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 and tapping into the university's computer network to get millions of paid-access scholarly articles.   Swartz's family has blasted prosecutors' handling of his case, saying overreaching led to his death.   A g...

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