He fought for information to be free by pirating JSTOR papers, and he was persecuted and prosecuted for it, and he killed himself (or did he? [vsauce music]).

... And now we have SciHub. Which is the same exact fucking thing as what he was trying to accomplish.

Also he was instrumental to the invention of the RSS protocol:

As a programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons, an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses; and the Python website framework web.py. 

The same RSS protocol that spez completely killed off a few months ago. Aaron's grave has been shat on so many times that it's basically a latrine now. But the people who say "fuck spez" know none of this, and if they do, they're cowards for not saying it out loud.

Reddit was initially written in Lisp?! His main contribution to Reddit was actually a bad one then :(