Aaron Swartz has committed suicide on January 11, 2013 in New York City. Swartz is an activist, co-founder of social news website Reddit and founder of the group DemandProgress. The EFF in a blog post states: Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, wrote on Twitter: This is another lesson you gave us certainly not the last.”]
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