Aaron Swartz dies aged 26 Family Blame Prosecutors For Death

	Aaron Swartz dies aged 26 Family Blame Prosecutors For Death The activist and Reddit co-founder, who took his own life, was facing charges for allegedly hacking millions of documents. The family of internet activist and programming whizz-kid Aaron Swartz have said they blame prosecutors for his death after he took his own life aged 26. Mr Swartz killed himself in his Brooklyn apartment weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of journal articles from an electronic archive in an attempt to make them freely available. If convicted, he faced decades in prison and significant fines. In a statement his family said: "Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. "Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US Attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death." Mr Swartz was considered to be a pioneer of efforts to make online content freely available. He was a prodigy who as a young teenager helped create RSS, a family of web feed formats used to gather updates from blogs, news headlines, audio and video for users. He co-founded the social news website Reddit, which was later sold to Conde Nast, as well as the political action group Demand Progress, which campaigns against internet censorship. But Mr Swartz struggled with depression.	From: TheNetApple Views: 0 0 ratings
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