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"Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz has been posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. The web activist was honoured five months following his suicide, which came while he was fighting allegations that he hacked into an academic papers archive.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re humbled and honoured by the award,&amp;quot; Aaron&amp;#039;s father Bob Swartz told CBS News. &amp;quot;He decided his life to make the world a better place and making knowledge available to everyone by making open access to the internet. He was a tireless activist.&amp;quot;  In addition to his work launching social news website Reddit, Swartz helped create the widely-used RSS standard and campaigned for internet freedom. Swartz was facing a lengthy jail sentence and fine of up to $1 million (\u00A3600,000) at the time of his death, as the US government pursued legal action against him over claims that he hacked into Jstor&amp;#039;s archive with the intent of sharing its data online. Amendments to US law have since been drafted to narrow the range of charges individuals who commit similar offences will face in the future. Other new inductees to the Internet Hall of Fame include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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