Authorities say Reddit co-founder and active member of a team that is struggling to make online content free to the public, was found dead.Press the New York medical examiner says 26-year-old Aaron Swartz hanged himself in his apartment in Brooklyn. It was found Friday.
Schwartz death was confirmed by his lawyer, Elliot Peters, in an email to the newspaper MIT Tech.
"The tragic and disturbing information that you have, unfortunately, it is true," wrote Peters.
Schwartz, a founder of the action group non-profit progressive political issue, was a child prodigy as a teenager helped create RSS. He was a founder of the social news site Reddit and direct political action group Progress demanded that the campaign against Internet censorship.
In 2011, he was arrested in Boston on charges of theft of millions of computer files of magazines at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Schwartz has pleaded not guilty. Federal Court on charges of computer fraud to begin next month. If convicted, he risks 50 years in prison and up to $ 4 million in fines.
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