Aarons Law Proposed on Reddit in Honor of Aaron Swartz

The law that was used to prosecute Internet freedom activist and hacker Aaron Swartz could be amended in the near future -- at least that's what Democratic California Rep. Zoe Lofgren wants.

Lofgren posted on Reddit Tuesday evening a proposal to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, under which Swartz was being charged.

"We should prevent what happened to Aaron from happening to other Internet users," Lofgren wrote on her Reddit post.

Lofgren called her proposal "Aaron's Law." The core of Lofgren's proposal is to make the violation of an online services user agreement (commonly referred to as "terms of service") a non-criminal activity. She underscored the importance of ref…
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