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Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz was the person /g/ wishes they could be. He co-created Creative Commons at the age of 12, RSS at the age of 13, Reddit at the age of 15, and is one of the primary reasons why SOPA did not pass. He committed suicide in 2013 due to illegal government surveillance on himself, as well as a number of made-up charges.
He ran for a position on the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Directors in 2006, and in this debate wrote up an analysis on Who Writes Wikipedia? where his analysis concluded surprisingly that:
"An outsider makes one edit to add a chunk of information, then insiders make several edits tweaking and reformatting it. In addition, insiders rack up thousands of edits doing things like changing the name of a category across the entire site — the kind of thing only insiders deeply care about. As a result, insiders account for the vast majority of the edits. But it’s the outsiders who provide nearly all of the content."
See also
- The MIT Controversy - The Controversy of MIT resulting in his suicide, and alleged chanrges
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
External links
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Eric Swartz Home page - archived since December 2014.
