Aaron Swartz woke up. He knew what was going on before any of us.

I believe his turning point was at the end of 2006. He wrote this article on October 20, 2006: "I hate the news"

If you look at his reddit history around that time, he was occasionally posting political news and other articles from the web. Then, almost like clockwork, he stopped posting articles on February 2017. See for yourself, you can literally see him go from a steady flow of posts in 2006 to almost nothing. You can also browse all his comment history, which I don't have the time to do, but I am sure there are gems in there.

Here are 2 cherry-picked submissions that Aaron made only a few days after he wrote the "I hate the news" article:

The Spinelessness of the American Press: the view from Russia

Planning 9/11: The Secret Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld Transcripts

Then, shortly after that, he magically stopped posting news to reddit.

Remember, this is 2006. At that time I was just as disgusted with the 9/11 "truthers" as Aaron was. But his lack of news posts after 2006 shows that something inside him changed. I think around that time in late 2006, he redpilled himself, and started to realize that maybe what the US media was saying didn't hold much water. I think he started to dig into who controls everything... the media, the banks, the ivy league schools, etc... and he found information that led him to pizzagate 10 years before any of us had a clue.

Aaron was a very, very smart guy. And very resourceful. His death was not a suicide.