Internet innovator Aaron Swartz commits suicide インターネットの発明家Aaron Swarzが自殺

　TECHWORLDによると、

Aaron Swartz, the brilliant Internet pioneer, passionate political activist and computer programming prodigy, committed suicide on Friday as he faced hacking-related charges that could have landed him in jail for decades, according to published reports.
Swartz, who was 26, killed himself in his New York City apartment, according to The Tech, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) newspaper that first reported his passing on Saturday.
Swartz played key roles in the development of the RSS online content syndication technology, in the creation of the Creative Commons licenses, in a campaign against the SOPA and PIPA bills and in the success of the Reddit news sharing site.

首吊りだったそうです。ガールフレンドによって発見されました。
　同サイトには、「MIT to probe its role in Internet activist Aaron Swartz's suicide」という記事があり、MITとの関わりを調査し始めているそうです。
　どうも、いろいろ背景の事情があるようで、偉大な発明家であっても、政治などにかかわると、ろくな結末にならないですね。