looks like he did great stuff. for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

"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. Swartz helped define the syntax of the lightweight markup language format Markdown, and was a co-owner of the social news aggregation website Reddit until it was fully sold in 2006 and contributed to its development until he left the company in 2007."

the most scary part is knowing this is the fear we all have, and the one they want us to have.