[Air-L] VIDEOS: Celebrating Aaron Swartz

[Joly MacFie]

10 years since we lost Aaron. Sad day, but we remember and honor him fondly.


[image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/16025>*Aaron Swartz
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz> *died on *January 11 2013*,
committing suicide while being hounded by US prosecutors over his efforts
to liberate academic journal articles. He was known both for his coding
skills, helping create *RSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS>*, *Creative
Commons <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons>*, *Markdown
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown>*, as well as his activism,
founding '*Demand Progress <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Progress>*'
and opposing *SOPA/PIPA
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA>* amongst
others.

A portion of the May 2012 *Internet Society live webcast
<https://isoc.live/4697/>* of him describing the SOPA/PIPA fight at *Freedom
to Connect <http://freedom-to-connect.net/2012/videos.html>* was shown at
his memorial at NYC's Cooper Union. The entire segment was repeated last
year's as part of *ISOC LIVE's 12 Days of Streams
<https://isoc.live/15075/>* event.

*View on Livestream https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-11
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-11>*
*Download
https://archive.org/download/12streams2021-11/12streams2021-11.mp4
<https://archive.org/download/12streams2021-11/12streams2021-11.mp4>*
*Transcript
https://archive.org/download/12streams2021-11/12Streams2021-11_TRANSCRIPT.pdf
<https://archive.org/download/12streams2021-11/12Streams2021-11_TRANSCRIPT.pdf>*



In June 2013 Aaron Swartz was posthumously *inducted into the Internet Hall
of Fame <https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/aaron-swartz/>*.

*View on YouTube https://youtu.be/vy9tSaZFlPI
<https://youtu.be/vy9tSaZFlPI>*
*Permalink https://isoc.live/16025 <https://isoc.live/16025>*


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