{"id":4394,"date":"2015-01-11T16:04:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2015-01-11T16:04:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T21:04:30","slug":"aaron-swartz-died-2-years-ago-today-in-remembrance-of-this-special-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4394","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Swartz Died 2 Years Ago Today \u2013 In Remembrance of This Special Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/01\/11\/aaron-swartz-died-2-years-ago-today-in-remembrance-of-this-special-soul\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Swartz Died 2 Years Ago Today \u2013 In Remembrance of This Special Soul<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Two years ago humanity lost a brave, brilliant and kindhearted individual named Aaron Swartz. On that day, I composed a post expressing my outrage and sadness. I reposted it on the anniversary of his death last year, and am reposting it again today.<\/p>\n<p>I would also like to add that if you haven\u2019t seen the Aaron Swartz documentary,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58\">\u00a0The Internet\u2019s Own Boy<\/a>, I highly recommend you do.<\/p>\n<p>Let us take inspiration from his life and his struggles in order to continue his very important and courageous work. What follows is the\u00a0original post,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2013\/01\/14\/remembering-internet-prodigy-and-activist-aaron-swartz-1986-2013-your-life-is-an-inspiration\/\">Remembering Internet Prodigy and Activist Aaron Swartz (1986-2013): Your Life is an Inspiration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remembering Internet Prodigy and Activist Aaron Swartz (1986-2013): Your Life is an Inspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It takes a person like Aaron Swartz to remind you how little you are actually doing to bring forth social, political and economic justice in this increasingly insane and sick world.\u00a0 I\u2019m not exaggerating when I say his life was an inspiration.\u00a0At 14 years old he helped start the RSS feed system, which so many now use to read content online.\u00a0He also co-founded Reddit, and its sale to Conde Nast is what afforded him the resources to dedicate his life to the defense of a free and open internet.\u00a0 His most remarkable success in this regard was the creation of the organization\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/demandprogress.org\/\">Demand Progress<\/a>, which was instrumental in defeating the internet censorship bill know as SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Swartz Died 2 Years Ago Today \u2013 In Remembrance of This Special Soul Two years ago humanity lost a brave, brilliant and kindhearted individual named Aaron Swartz. On that day, I composed a post expressing my outrage and sadness. I reposted it on the anniversary of his death last year, and am reposting it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[975,120,2594,1339,2596,2595],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-aaron-swartz","tag-censorship","tag-demand-progress","tag-internet","tag-rss","tag-sopa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}