"**Aaron Swartz, a celebrated internet freedom activist and early developer of the website Reddit, has died at 26.
**The activist and programmer took his life in his New York apartment, a relative and the state medical examiner said. His body was found on Friday.
Mr Swartz began computer programming as a child, and at 14 co-authored an early version of the RSS specification.
He later became an advocate of internet freedom, and was facing hacking charges at the time of his death.
A spokeswoman for New York’s medical examiner later confirmed to Associated Press news agency that Mr Swartz had hanged himself."
Source : Aaron Swartz, internet freedom activist, dies aged 26 - BBC News
RIP, I wonder why he decided to do something like that…I don’t think he would be someone afraid of facing charges against him…specially when he was fighting for a cause..
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