Aaron Swartz
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Updated: 11 Jan 2023
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Condé Nast buys RedditBornCreates Wikipedia precursor The Info NetworkArsDigita Prize finalist for The Info NetworkDrops out of HS in 9th gradeAttends Lake Forest CollegeRSS 1.0 working groupDevelops Creative Commons licensing code with Lawrence LessigEnrolls in Stanford University for one yearDownloads Westlaw corpus while at Stanford, resulting in 2008 Stanford Law Review articleStanford Law Review article on impact of remunerative research on punitive damages published by S. A. Barday
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40379696Develops web.py web application framework and Infogami web design software at Y CombinatorRewrites Reddit platform using web.py and python with other Reddit co-foundersReddit and Infogami mergeLaunches Jottit start-up after being fired from Conde-NastFounded WatchDog.net government accountability siteGuerilla Open Access Manifesto publishedFOIA request for information about treatment of whistleblower and Wikileaks source Chelsea (nee Bradley) ManningBulk downloads PACER federal court documents with activist Carl MalamudInvestigated by the FBI for PACER bulk download; no charges filedHelps launch Progressive Change Campaign Committee, credited with launching Elizabeth Warren's senate bidCo-founded Demand Progress political advocacy groupHarvard research fellowship studying political corruptionSOPA / PIPA bills on Internet 'piracy' abandonedPublishes "Who Writes Wikipedia?" analysis while running for Wikimedia Foundation BoardBulk download of JSTOR corpus using MIT NetworkJSTOR settlementArrestFederal indictments: wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computerSuperseding federal indictments totaling 13 felonies, 11 under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, increasing Swartz's maximum criminal exposure to 50 years of imprisonment and $1 million in finesDeath by suicideInternet Hall of Fame inductee (posthumous)EFF Pioneer Award (posthumous)ALA James Madison Award (posthumous)Open Library launchedStrongBox (aka DeadDrop) launched
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