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<div class="im">We need to beat back a bad proposal to expand
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) -- in a hurry. So
we're asking Demand Progress members and the broader Internet
Defense League to snap into action next week, especially
Monday and Tuesday (April 8th and 9th.)<br>
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<strong>1) You can read more and grab code for our embeddable
contact-Congress widgets by clicking here: <a
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<div class="im">We'd ask you to post them to your site to help
let your visitors know about this threat, and to spur them to
get involved. You'll be joining <strong>Fight for the Future,
Demand Progress, EFF, Boing Boing, Reddit</strong>, and
other great groups and sites as we stand together against this
awful proposal.</div>
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<div class="im"><strong>2) You can use these links to ask your
friends to take part:</strong></div>
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<div class="im">As many of you probably know, our friend (and
friend to many of you) <strong>Aaron Swartz</strong> committed
suicide earlier this year, while he was being prosecuted for
downloading too many academic articles from the JSTOR
cataloguing site. Prosecutors were hanging four decades in
prison over his head!<br>
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Aaron was <strong>charged under the CFAA,</strong> a law that
passed in the mid-80s, before more than a handful of Americans
even had personal computers -- let alone Internet access.<br>
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Yet law enforcement interprets this statute so broadly that it
claims it <strong>criminalizes all sorts of mundane Internet
use</strong>: potentially even breaking a website's fine
print terms of service agreement. Don't set up a Myspace page
for your cat. Don't fudge your height on a dating site.
Don't share your Facebook password with anybody, ever. <strong>You
could be exposed to prosecution for a federal crime.</strong><br>
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We've been pushing to change this, and have made some
progress: Reps and Senators are pulling together a proposal
called "Aaron's Law".<br>
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But... then last week members of the House Judiciary Committee
floated an audacious proposal that would actually <strong>expand
and harshen certain parts of the CFAA</strong>. Think of it
as the opposite of Aaron's Law. And we're hearing that it
could come up for a vote as soon as next week.<br>
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<div class="im"><strong>We need your helping mobilizing your
visitors as we strive to beat back this awful proposal and
to build momentum for Aaron's Law.</strong></div>
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<div class="im"><strong>1) You can read more and grab code for
our embeddable contact-Congress widgets by clicking here: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.demandprogress.org/go/908?t=4&akid=2096.1649461.mZjxpy">www.FixTheCFAA.com</a></strong></div>
<div class="im"> </div>
<div class="im">We'd ask you to post them to your site to help
let your visitors know about this threat, and to spur them
to get involved. You'll be joining <strong>Fight for the
Future, Demand Progress, EFF, Boing Boing, Reddit</strong>,
and other great groups and sites as we stand together
against this awful proposal.</div>
<div class="im"> </div>
<div class="im">
<div class="im"><strong>2) You can use these links to ask
your friends to take part:</strong></div>
<div class="im"><strong><br>
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<div class="im adL">Reforming the CFAA is a real chance for the
US Congress to make laws governing the Internet better and
fairer. And it's a chance for the coalition that came
together around SOPA to actually pass positive reform. <strong>If
all of us take action next week</strong>, it won't just kill
a bad bill, it will help us build real momentum to passing
positive change in the wake of Aaron's death.</div>
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<div class="im adL">Thanks,</div>
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<div class="im adL">Demand Progress</div>
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