[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: re: Demand justice for Aaron]

[agnes at mcn.org]

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Subject: re: Demand justice for Aaron
From:    "David Moon, Demand Progress" <info at demandprogress.org>
Date:    Wed, February 6, 2013 10:33 am
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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Agnes,

![][1]Thanks for signing.  ****

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**Now we want to set upon honoring Aaron's life's work and helping to make
sure that such a travesty is never repeated.**

Please ask your friends to join the cause.

If you're already on **Facebook**, [click here to share with your
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campaign][3].

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Or, just email the link to your friends:

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Here's a sample email you can send to your friends:

* * *

Friends,

I just received this email about Aaron Swartz's tragic passing, written by
his
partner, Taren. Click here to call for an inquiry into his prosecution.

On January 11, 2013, facing decades in prison on trumped up charges, my
partner, Aaron Swartz, made the tragic choice to take his own life. He was
only 26.

Aaron's supposed crime? He was accused of checking out too many articles (4.8
million), too fast, from an online academic library called JTSOR, to which he
had authorized access. He never used or distributed the articles and later
returned them. For that, he faced 35 years behind bars and endured two years
of relentless persecution.

The outdated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) made this tragedy
possible by
giving absurdly broad powers to corporations and prosecutors to
criminalize an
array of online activity. That includes breaching a website's terms of
service
--that long fine print you "agree to" but never read.

All of us who knew and loved Aaron never want to see anyone suffer this kind
of abuse of power again. So, we're urgently calling on Congress to reform the
CFAA. Please join us by clicking here:

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/credo_cfaa?referring_akid=a7943427.227821
1.0dG5Sn&source=auto-taf

Aaron was an innovator, entrepeneur, and social justice advocate who co-
authored RSS 1.0 (the web's format for sharing and distributing content) at
the age of 14, co-founded the social news website Reddit, and led the
fight to
stop SOPA and PIPA--the internet censorship bills.

His fight to stop SOPA and PIPA started with a petition just like this
one, so
we know this can work. In fact, there's already been a strong, bipartisan
reaction to Aaron's death and legislation is in the works to reform the CFAA
right now. But it won't happen without a big public push.

We can't get Aaron back, but can you help us honor his memory by signing this
petition and sharing it with everyone you know? Just click here:

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/credo_cfaa?referring_akid=a7943427.227821
1.0dG5Sn&source=auto-taf

Thank you for listening.

--Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman

* * *

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