Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz (born November 8, 1986) is an American programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist. He is known in programming circles for co-authoring the RSS 1.0 specification.

On 19 July 2011 he was arrested for allegedly harvesting academic journal articles from JSTOR.

Swartz is the co-founder of Demand Progress and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

Read more about Aaron Swartz:  Early Life and Studies, Publications