Cause of the Day
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- qoob
Stop the extradition of Richard O'Dwyer to the USA
Richard O'Dwyer is a 24 year old British student at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. He is facing extradition to the USA and up to ten years in prison, for creating a website – TVShack.net – which linked (similar to a search-engine) to places to watch TV and movies online.
O'Dwyer is not a US citizen, he's lived in the UK all his life, his site was not hosted there, and most of his users were not from the US. America is trying to prosecute a UK citizen for an alleged crime which took place on UK soil.
The internet as a whole must not tolerate censorship in response to mere allegations of copyright infringement. As citizens we must stand up for our rights online.
- moldero0
dun dit it. that sux.
- BuddhaHat0
Signed. This is what would happen to Assange if he was sent to Sweden, too. Except it wouldn't be for 10 years.
- totally irrelevant statementfadein11
- The crimes are different, but the extradition requests are very similar. Hence, relevant.BuddhaHat
- swedes havent even charged him with a crime, just want to interview him - doubtful hed be convicted - the above will befadein11
- But the U.S. are working on charges Assange for espionage...qoob
- Good article on this
http://www.smh.com.a…qoob
- GeorgesII0
if they gave 17 years to Tarek Mehanna for thought crime.
Everyone, should sign this petition,
please take 5 min to read his statements,
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/13/…
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/13/…
- 23kon0
I know Richard from the world of Mini Tuning/Racing.
He's a nice guy and it's a shocking story.
Good to see his cause popping up on here and people willing to sign to help.
- qoob0
bump