
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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