Lessig: Aaron Swartz’s Death Huge Loss to Society, Internet Community

Lessig: Aaron Swartz's Death Huge Loss to Society, Internet Community
Lessig: Aaron Swartz's Death Huge Loss to Society, Internet Community

Shock and sadness pervaded the tech community over the week after Internet entrepreneur and web freedom activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide in his Brooklyn apartment.

The co-founder of Reddit and co-creator of the RSS feed was facing decades in jail for downloading files from the academic journal library of JSTOR while in an MIT computer lab.

Host Carmen Russell-Sluchansky spoke with Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor who knew and worked with Swartz, to discuss the life and legacy behind the web freedom activist.

 

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