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This is the same congressperson who named a bill after Aaron Swartz, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064448
by perihelions 2y ago
This is the same congressperson who named a bill after Aaron Swartz,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064448 ("Rep. Zoe Lofgren Introduces Aaron's Law [pdf] (house.gov)" (2013))
- schoen 2y agoFor those who weren't following it at the time, one thing that Aaron was famous for was helping organize a campaign against an earlier form of this legislation in 2011 and 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Opposition_to_the_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act_(SOPA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Opposition_to_the... (Not that Zoe Lofgren has somehow signed up to agree with Aaron's positions about everything.)