{"id":68406,"date":"2013-01-12T23:03:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T21:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=68406"},"modified":"2013-01-12T23:04:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T21:04:39","slug":"reddit-co-founder-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/68406-reddit-co-founder-found-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Reddit co-founder found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say a co-founder of the social news website Reddit and activist who fought to make online content free to the public has been found dead.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for New York&#8217;s medical examiner says 26-year-old Aaron Swartz hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment and was found Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Swartz was a prodigy who as a young teenager helped create RSS. He co-founded Reddit and directed the political action group Demand Progress that campaigns against Internet censorship.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, he was arrested in Boston and charged with stealing millions of scientific journals from a computer archive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Swartz pleaded not guilty. His federal trial on computer fraud charges was to begin next month. If convicted, he could have faced decades in prison and a fortune in fines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68408\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/68406-reddit-co-founder-found-dead.html\/attachment\/aaron-swartz\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68408\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68408\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68408\" title=\"Aaron Swartz\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Aaron-Swartz.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Swartz\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Aaron-Swartz.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Aaron-Swartz-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Aaron-Swartz-185x123.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Aaron-Swartz-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Swartz<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa\u2019s biggest and best websites\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/63802-south-africas-biggest-and-best-websites.html\"><strong>South Africa\u2019s biggest and best websites<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Biggest South African mobile websites\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/61078-biggest-south-african-mobile-websites-2.html\"><strong>Biggest South African mobile websites<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa\u2019s top dogs online\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/61236-south-africas-top-dogs-online.html\"><strong>South Africa\u2019s top dogs online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Top 10 South African websites\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/58841-top-10-south-african-websites-2.html\"><strong>Top 10 South African websites<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-founder of the social news website Reddit and activist who fought to make online content free to the public has been found dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":53309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[17756,36,8045],"class_list":["post-68406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-aaron-swartz","tag-active","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68410,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68406\/revisions\/68410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}