Per Oscar Swartz is a Swedish

Sweden

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 entrepreneur

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, writer

Writer

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 and blog

Blog

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ger.

Oscar Swartz was born in Solna

Solna Municipality

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, Stockholm County

Stockholm County

Stockholm County is a county or län on the Baltic sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Stockholm County is divided by the historic provinces of Uppland and Södermanland...

. He is the great-grandson of the former Swedish Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Sweden

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 Carl Swartz

Carl Swartz

Carl Johan Gustaf Swartz was a Swedish right-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 30 March 1917 to 19 October 1917...

, and a second cousin of the publisher Eva Swartz and the journalist Richard Swartz. He has a doctorate

Doctorate

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 in economics

Economics

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 and managerial economics

Managerial economics

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 from the Stockholm School of Economics

Stockholm School of Economics

The Stockholm School of Economics or Handelshögskolan i Stockholm is one of Northern Europe's leading business schools. Its Masters in Management program is ranked no. 2 in Northern Europe and no. 13 in Europe by the Financial Times...

. In 1994 he founded Bahnhof

Bahnhof

Bahnhof is a Swedish Internet service provider founded in 1994 by Oscar Swartz in Uppsala and was the first independent ISP in Sweden. Today the company is represented in Stockholm, Göteborg, Uppsala, Borlänge, and Lund....

, the first independent Internet service provider

Internet service provider

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 in Sweden. He left the company in 2004 after some internal disputes.

Since July 2005 he runs the blog

Blog

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 Texplorer where he covers issues such as information technology

Information technology

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, freedom and integrity

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 on the Internet, file sharing

File sharing

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 and intellectual property

Intellectual property

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. He has authored two reports, published by the Swedish liberal free market think tank Timbro

Timbro

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, on these issues. He is a member of the Swedish Pirate Party.

Swartz is openly

Coming out

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 gay

Gay

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. In 1995 he co-founded the magazine QX

QX (Swedish magazine)

QX started in 1995 with the aim to create communication platforms for the LGBT-community in Sweden and Scandinavia. It has a circulation about 32,000 copies a month and is the largest magazine of its kind in the region....

, which is today the largest magazine for LGBT

LGBT

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 people in Scandinavia.

External links

• Oscar Swartz - Texplorer, blog