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The late Internet activist Aaron Swartz played a role in blocking SOPA with the founding of Demand Progress as an advocacy group focused on Internet legislation. Here's Swartz in May 2012 talking about the movement to stop SOPA. Carmen Ortiz, 57, the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, is now being investigated for alleged prosecutorial abuses that may have prompted the 26-year old activist to take his own life last week.

January 18, 2013 4:00 AM PST

Photo by: Fred Benson/ Creative Commons: Flickr

| Caption by: Charles Cooper

 

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