No Harsher CFAA! Support Aaron's Law Instead

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We need to push back against attempts to create even harsher CFAA penalties.

We believe that these lawamkers listed below are the key members of the House Judiciary Committee whom we need to urge to oppose the new CFAA bill. Would you call as many of them as you can? You can tell them:

We need reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make sure that no more activists and innovators are threatened with prison time by the current statute's over-breadth. But now House Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would expand the CFAA and increase penalties.

We need you to oppose it, and to support Aaron's Law, likely to be introduced by Rep. Lofgren and Sen. Wyden.

If you'd like more detail on the new bill and why it's bad, take a look at this article in Techdirt.

The priorities are:

Likely sponsor: Randy Forbes (R-VA): (202) 225-6365

Chair: Bob Goodlatte (R-VA): (202) 225-5431

Ranking Democrat: John Conyers (D-MI): (202) 225-5126

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Jason Chaffetz (R-UT): (202) 225-7751

Trent Franks (R-AZ): (202) 225-4576

Jim Jordan (R-OH): (202) 226-0577

Raul Labrador (R-ID): (202) 225-6611

Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI):

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Steve Cohen (D-TN): (202) 225-3265

Cedric Richmond (D-LA): (202) 225-6636

Bobby Scott (D-VA): (202) 225-8351

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	Sent! If you like, you can send more messages below. If you have an email program, click here to open an email you can send to your friends. Or send an email from here. Enter friends' e-mail addresses: Subject: Fwd: Unbelievable Friends, I just got this email from Demand Progress about a ridiculous effort by House Republicans to create harsher penalties for innovators and activists like Aaron Swartz: It's unbelievable: The whole Internet is clamoring for reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because it stifles innovation and even imprisons activists and innovators like Aaron Swartz. (And could easily have been used against Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and countless others.) So what are some Republicans in the House thinking about doing? Expanding it, and instituting even harsher penalties. This is completely unacceptable. Add your name here to tell your lawmakers to oppose harsher CFAA penalties: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/no_cfaa/?referring_akid=2068.1721079.u-ynQy&source=taf The new law would heighten penalties -- creating the possibility of up to 30 years in prison for a single broadly-defined offense -- make it easy to be considered a conspirator, and entrench law enforcement's assertions that they should be able to put you in prison for violating terms of serivce agreements! This is an awful affront to all of the work we've been doing and to the cries for justice in the wake of Aaron's passing. Please help us beat this thing down! Just click here to email your lawmakers. http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/no_cfaa/?referring_akid=2068.1721079.u-ynQy&source=taf Thanks. Add a short note (optional):

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