Just weeks before he was supposed to stand trial for stealling millions of journal articles from an electronic archive to try to make them freely available, 26-year-old and co-founder of Reddit.com Aaron Swartz, was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment. Swartz hung himself to avoid facing years behind bars and a crazy amount of fines. Swartz was arrested in 2010 for stealing journals from the archive at MIT. Sadly, he was one of the strong activist fighting for free online content. Read more below.

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Swartz not only was a co-founder of Reddit, but he also helped to create RSS. He was considered one of the pioneers in the Tech world for his work in attempting to make information available for free. He plead not guilty to the wire fraud charges that were said to “makes no sense,” by the prosecution. In total, he faced 13 felony charges according to the LATimes.