[Solar-general] Fwd: Demand justice for Aaron Swartz

Jue Ene 17 21:32:35 CET 2013

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From: Lawrence Lessig
Subject: Demand justice for Aaron Swartz
To: Diego Saravia <diego.saravia en gmail.com>

 <http://act.demandprogress.org/go/834?t=1&akid=1969.609406.rRfSs0>Diego,

*Click here to join Demand Progress and me in demanding justice for our
friend Aaron Swartz.
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We spent Tuesday burying and mourning our friend Aaron. We're sad, we're
tired, we're frustrated -- *and we're angry* at a system that let this
happen to Aaron.  Now we want to set upon honoring his life's work and
helping to make sure that such a travesty is never repeated.

We and Aaron's friends and family have been in touch with lawmakers to ask
for help, and several of them -- who've worked with Aaron and Demand
Progress on SOPA and other issues -- are beginning to take action.  *We're
asking them to help rein in a criminal justice system run amok*.
Authorities are encouraged to bring frivolous charges and hold decades of
jail time over the heads of people who are accused of committing victimless
crimes.
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1) Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced what's been named  "Aaron's
Law."  It would fix a key part of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA),
which is one of the statutes under which Aaron was indicted. * We need to
pass Aaron's Law AND further amend the CFAA.*

The CFAA makes violations of a website's terms of service agreement or user
agreement -- that fine print you never read before you check the box next
to it -- a FELONY, potentially punishable by many years in prison.  That's
how over-broad this dangerous statute is, and one way it lets showboating
prosecutors file charges against people who've done nothing wrong.

*Aaron's Law would decriminalize violating these agreements*: They're
essentially contracts, and as with other contracts, disputes about them
should be settled in civil courts rather than in out of control criminal
trials under threat of decades of prison time.

As currently written, Aaron's Law alone wouldn't have saved Aaron -- there
is still more to do to make sure that victimless computer activities are
not charged as felonies -- *but this is a solid start that we can pass now
and it's a law he wanted to change.*  Then we'll keep pushing forward.
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2) Additionally, we asked Congressman Darrell Issa -- who controls the
powerful Oversight Committee -- to open an investigation into prosecutorial
misconduct in Aaron's case.

*Amazingly, he's already responded and is sending an investigator to the
office of the U.S. Attorney who was pressing charges against Aaron. *

We want the inquiry to proceed, and to be broadened to include a more
thorough investigation into rampant over-prosecution of alleged crimes with
no victims -- as in the case of what Aaron was accused of.  *And we want
those who abused their power to be held to account.

*We loved Aaron -- so many people loved Aaron -- *and his death is tragic*.
We and others who were close to him are overwhelmed by the outpouring of
support, and the calls for justice.  Thank you for joining us in that fight.
Click here to join us in demanding justice for Aaron -- let's fix this
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-Demand Progress and Lawrence Lessig
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-- 
Diego Saravia
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NO FUNCIONA->dsa en unsa.edu.ar
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