Oscar Swartz

Oscar Swartz during a protest against the FRA law in Stockholm, 2008.

Per Oscar Swartz (born 1 December 1959) is a Swedish entrepreneur, writer and blogger.

Oscar Swartz was born in Solna, Stockholm County. He is the great-grandson of the former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Swartz, and a second cousin of the publisher Eva Swartz and the journalist Richard Swartz. He has a doctorate in economics and managerial economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. In 1994 he founded Bahnhof, the first independent Internet service provider in Sweden. He left the company in 2004 after some internal disputes.

Since July 2005 he runs the blog Texplorer where he covers issues such as information technology, freedom and integrity on the Internet, file sharing and intellectual property. He has authored two reports, published by the Swedish liberal free market think tank Timbro, on these issues. He is a member of the Swedish Pirate Party.

Swartz is openly gay.^[1] In 1995 he co-founded the magazine QX,^{[citation needed]} which is today the largest magazine for LGBT people in Scandinavia.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ "Online Bio", Swartz.typepad.com, http://swartz.typepad.com/about.html, retrieved 2008-11-05 

External links

• Oscar Swartz - Texplorer, blog

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Name	Swartz, Oscar
Alternative names	Swartz, Per Oscar (full name)
Short description	Internet entrepreneur and writer
Date of birth	1 December 1959
Place of birth	Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden
Date of death
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