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Lawmakers pledge to change hacking law during Swartz memorial |
February 05, 2013
U.S. lawmakers pledged to rewrite an antihacking law as hundreds of people gathered in Washington, D.C., to mourn the death of Internet activist and innovator Aaron Swartz.
Speakers at a Monday memorial service for Swartz, who committed suicide in January, remembered him as an intensely curious young man who wanted to help people and change the world. The world is a "worse place" because of Swartz's death, said his girlfriend, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman.
Swartz was "one of the brightest stars in America," Stinebrickner-Kauffman said. "He had so much more to do."
As a teenager, Swartz played key roles in the development of the RSS online content syndication technology, in the creation of the Creative Commons licenses and in the founding of the Reddit news sharing site. He later cofounded Demand Progress, a left-leaning activist group focused on technology policy and other issues.
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