Mark Gardner<p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AaronSwartz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AaronSwartz</span></a>, brilliant 26-year-old Internet activist, co-creator of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reddit</span></a> and co-writer of the <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a> specification, committed <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> twelve years ago yesterday.</p><p>In 2008 he helped defeat paywalled <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/PublicDomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicDomain</span></a> case law; in 2012 <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/SOPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOPA</span></a>/ <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/PIPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PIPA</span></a>; but after enduring 18 months of federal persecution for liberating public-domain articles from <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/JSTOR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JSTOR</span></a>, he ended his own life.</p><p>If you feel hopeless, call 988.</p><p>If you supported bullying Aaron, may you burn in hell.</p><p><a href="https://AaronSwartzDay.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">AaronSwartzDay.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>