A petition on Watchdog.net is a somewhat disturbing, yet courageous act by 26-year-old Deric Lostutter:
The Steubenville rape case helped spark a national conversation about victim-blaming and rape culture.
But the victim only got justice because Anonymous leaked significant social media evidence implicating the assailants — and for distributing those tweets, photos, and video, 26-year-old Deric Lostutter faces more prison time than the rapists got themselves.
Lostutter faces up to ten years behind bars if he's convicted of hacking-relating crimes. Now he's gearing up for a costly legal battle — and as he calls for donations, we call on you to give him the nationwide support he needs to win his trial.
The Ohio U.S. Attorney's office and the DOJ are sending a dangerous message to men who stand up : Don't get involved, or else. Let them know we still stand with Deric: Sign your support for his actions and oppose sending him to prison, now!
MESSAGE FOR U.S. ATTORNEY AND DOJ: We support Deric's whisleblowing at Steubenville, and urge you to note our nationwide support when deciding whether to charge him for his act of courage.
Firstly, hacks are no where near as bad as rape crime. Also, how is a courageous act of "crime" bad enough to put the hacker in jail for longer than the rapists? This makes no sense whatsoever.
Please America, stop wasting your time with hackers, they are no different to a journalist taking pictures of a scene of crime in this case. Of course, there are exceptions, but even they have yet to be fully justified. American Cyber Crime laws need to adapt in a much better way than this, and I hope Aaron's Law is enough to stop these vicious punishments against cyber criminals.
ADDITIONAL:
The Steubenville rape case lead to the criminals in question being sentenced to two years imprisonment eventually, and the full article relating to the case can be found here. The weird thing is that people who were covering up the criminals in the case had in fact been arrogant all that time.