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Call your Congressperson and urge them to pass Aaron's Law. Aaron’s Law is in the process of being introduced and debated by members of Congress. The bill wou
by tyang 14y ago
Call your Congressperson and urge them to pass Aaron's Law.
Aaron’s Law is in the process of being introduced and debated by members of Congress.
The bill would fix the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to prevent the type of prosecutorial abuse that led to the death of Aaron Swartz.
Aaron’s Law is being introduced by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and is only two pages long.
You can view a draft here: http://1.usa.gov/13DlJj4 http://1.usa.gov/13DlJj4
Call your Congressperson and tell him or her to support Aaron’s Law now. Then spread the word.
Here's one easy way to call:
http://phonebank.org/aaronslaw http://phonebank.org/aaronslaw
Note: My good friend from the '08 Obama campaign started this site.
- monochromatic 14y agoActually, "Aaron's Law" would not have materially changed the prosecution in this case. Yet again, a law named after a person is a hastily constructed, poorly thought-out, bad idea. Has there ever been a counterexample to that rule?
- kragen 14y agoTaren endorsed Aaron's Law in her eulogy, or at least in the transcript I read. I assume she'd read it first.
- lizzard 14y agoIn SF at the memorial she mentioned it as a good try but not good enough.
- kragen 14y agoAha, thanks for the update. The one at the Internet Archive? I watched her speech last night (and her tearjerking poetry reading at the end) but I don't remember anything about that.
- kragen 14y agoAha, thanks for the update. The one at the Internet Archive? I watched her speech last night (and her tearjerking poetry reading at the end) but I don't remember anything about that.
- Anechoic 14y agoCall your Congressperson and urge them to pass Aaron's Law. Sorry but no. I am going to contact my Congress critters and urge them for justice system reform. At best "Aaron's Law" will help one small demographic when the problem is much, much larger.