Friends and Family of Aaron Swartz to Hold Public Memorial Service in NYC
The untimely death of internet activist and former reddit employee Aaron Swartz evoked the sympathy and outrage of many who felt that the 26-year-old programmer was treated unfairly by the law. On Saturday, January 19, 2013, there will be a public memorial service for Swartz from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EST) at Cooper Union's Great Hall in Manhattan.
The untimely death of internet activist and former reddit employee Aaron Swartz evoked the sympathy and outrage of many who felt that the 26-year-old programmer was treated unfairly by the law.
On Saturday, January 19, 2013, there will be a free public memorial service for Swartz from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EST) at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in Manhattan.
When Swartz took his own life on January 11, he faced up to 35 years in prison for using MIT’s network to illegally download millions of scholarly documents from the JSTOR archives in order to make them free to the public.
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