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March 15, 2013 01:11 am GMT

Aaron Swartz to Receive Posthumous Freedom of Information Award

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The late activist and coder Aaron Swartz will be posthumously honored Friday, when his family will receive the Freedom of Information award in a ceremony at the Newseum’s Knight Conference Center in Washington, D.C.

Democratic California Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who won last year, will present the award, which is officially named the James Madison Award and administered by the American Library Association. Lofgren has been one of Swartz's most vocal supporters in D.C., criticizing the prosecution that accused him of computer crimes and proposing a bill named "Aaron's Law" to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was levied against him


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