Activist Who Exposed Steubenville Rape Case May Go to Jail Longer than Rapists: Demand Justice!

In the U.S,. rapists walk free, and heroes go to jail.

Deric Lostutter, the Anonymous-affiliated hacker who helped expose the violent rape and administrative coverup of an unconscious 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio, is facing up to 16 years in prison for four felony counts of hacking. The rapists spent just 1 to 2 years in prison and now walk free. One of the rapists, Ma'lik Richmond, even returned to his school football team, and the other, Trent Mays, now plays on a college team.

This is NOT justice. This is another example of a criminal justice system that heavily prosecutes activists and nonviolent offenders and provides lenient sentencing to violent offenders, like Brock Turner. Americans repeatedly choose to turn a blind eye to violence against women in order to protect people they like to watch play football. It is a disgusting and perverse injustice.

Lostutter's trial will begin on November 8, 2016. We must send a clear message that U.S. taxpayers do not NOT want do-gooders prosecuted and jailed for exposing violent crime.

Lostutter is being proseucted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The CFAA is a poorly written law and, according to Mic, "has been interpreted so broadly that sharing your Netflix password with one too many exes could put you in violation. In 2012, open-internet activist, Reddit cofounder and prodigy Aaron Swartz was hit with the CFAA simply for downloading academic papers illegally. Fearing decades behind bars, he took his own life at the age of 26."

Sign this petition to urge U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves NOT to send Lostutter to jail and to urge Congress to revisit the CFAA!