‘US government killed my internet activist son’
Mr Swartz — who helped create Reddit and RSS — the technology behind blogs, podcasts, and other internet-based subscription services, was found dead last week in his New York apartment. He was facing trial accused of illegally gaining access to millions of articles from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) computer archive — charges that could have sent him to prison for decades.
During the funeral service in Highland Park, Chicago, his father Robert said his son was “hounded by the government, and MIT refused him”, the Chicago Sun-Times said.
