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The co-founder of RSS, AARON Swartz committed suicide

Weeks before going on trial, the teenager co-founder of RSS, and the Reddit website, AARON Swartz has committed a suicide Swartz has been fighting to make online content free. Back in 2011, he was charged of stealing millions of articles from a computer archive and made them available for free. AARON’s family showed anger toward persecutors in Massachusetts “Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach” a family statement said.

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