Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales starts petition to fight against British student’s extradition to the

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[quote=rt.com]Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has got over 70,000 signatures on a petition to save a British student from extradition to the US over copyright infringement charges. British MPs say the treaty as a whole is unfair and demand it be overhauled.Sheffield student [URL="http://rt.com/usa/news/us-extradition-student-uk-493/"]Richard O'Dwyer, 24, faces extradition to America[/URL] and up to 10 years in prison for alleged copyright offences after setting up a website with links to TV shows called TVShack.com.

Jimmy Wales wants UK Home Secretary Theresa May to step in and save O’Dwyer and sees his plight as a test case for copyright censorship laws.
Once a petition gets 100,000 signatures, they are considered for parliamentary debate.
[I]“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,”[/I] Wales wrote in the petition.

He added that[I] “copyright is an important institution, serving a beneficial moral and economic purpose”[/I] – but it does not mean that[I] “we should abandon time-honored moral and legal principles to allow endless encroachments on our civil liberties in the interests of the moguls of Hollywood.”
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The extradition law in question has recently come under fire, again. The Tory MP Dominic Raab has unearthed damning evidence that the extradition agreement between the UK and the US is lopsided.
The MP found Britain has sent more nationals to the US in the past six months than the Americans have handed over to Britain in the last seven years.
Since 2004 35 British nationals have been extradited to America while only seven US citizens have been extradited to the UK.

This is despite the massive population disparity between the countries; the US has a population of 311 million, 5 times greater than that of the UK’s 62 million.
Critics of the Act argue that extraditing British nationals to the US is easier than getting the US to send people to the UK because American authorities have to produce less evidence than their British counterparts.
The UK has to provide US authorities with [I]“such information as would provide a reasonable basis to believe that the person sought committed the offence for which extradition is requested.” [/I]
However, if US authorities want to extradite a UK citizen authorities only need to sate the offence, provide an accurate description of the suspect and specify the punishment as set out in US statute.
The lopsided act was passed by Labour in 2003 and is currently being reviewed by the Home Secretary.

As well as O’Dwyer, there have been a number of recent high profile and emotive cases of UK nationals who have tried to fight extradition to the US.
Gary Mckinnon has been doing it for the last 10 years. Mr Mckinnon who has Asperger’s syndrome, allegedly hacked into NASA and
Pentagon computers while looking for UFO’s from his bedroom computer. Medical experts have said that because of his condition it is likely he’ll kill himself if moved to the US.
Sixty-five year old pensioner Christopher Tappin was extradited to the US in February for allegedly supplying Iran with batteries for Hawk missiles.
He claims the FBI deliberately fabricated a case to entrap him in a carefully planned sting operation.

Mr Tappin, who used to run a freight business, says he had no idea that the batteries were destined for Iran or were for Hawk Missiles.
The Briton has used his car and house to cover huge legal fees and was held in solitary confinement in a Texas jail before being held in a cell with six other inmates.
He was released on bail in April for $1 million; the case is on-going.

The United States maintains that extradition requests between the two countries must meet the same standard of evidence. The US Ambassador to London Louis Susman said in a statement earlier in the year, that the treaty was fair and balanced and promotes the interests of [I]“justice in both our countries."[/I][URL="http://www.rt.com/news/wikipedia-copyright-extradition-law-uk-880/"]
http://www.rt.com/news/wikipedia-copyright-extradition-law-uk-880/[/URL][/quote]

Link to petition: [URL="http://www.change.org/petitions/ukhomeoffice-stop-the-extradition-of-richard-o-dwyer-to-the-usa-saverichard#share"]http://www.change.org/petitions/ukhomeoffice-stop-the-extradition-of-richard-o-dwyer-to-the-usa-saverichard[/URL]

It's disappointing how often I'm ashamed to live here.

[lordcrypto]

[B]An important petition from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales[/B]

[MeMassiveFag]

Jimmy Wales is such a bro

[AaRoNg11]

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[Turnips5]

woo, go jimmy

[Hail Satan]

jeez send him to anywhere but america, that place is the fucking pits

[Elecbullet]

I would consider that quite an overstatement Lambeth.

[Mr Skeltal]

[QUOTE=Lambeth;36524828]jeez send him to anywhere but america, that place is the fucking pits[/QUOTE]

So he should be sent to North Korea instead, amirite?

[galenmarek]

[QUOTE=Lambeth;36524828]jeez send him to anywhere but america, that place is the fucking pits[/QUOTE]

Tell me... Have you ever spent a day in China that is not Hong Kong and as another Chinese person and not a tourist?

[Jergee]

If you fuck up in Europe, they'll send you to America.

[M24]

This was the first petition i've ever bothered to sign. The extradition policy is a damn disgrace.

[Hail Satan]

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36525058]I would consider that quite an overstatement Lambeth.[/QUOTE]

also a joke

[editline]27th June 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE=galenmarek;36525178]Tell me... Have you ever spent a day in China that is not Hong Kong and as another Chinese person and not a tourist?[/QUOTE]
mmmm nope

[editline]27th June 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE=IliekBoxes;36525079]So he should be sent to North Korea instead, amirite?[/QUOTE]

nope nope nope

[Raidyr]

[QUOTE=M24;36526023]This was the first petition i've ever bothered to sign. The extradition policy is a damn disgrace.[/QUOTE]
While not the first I've signed, it's the first I have signed in quite awhile.

[RockmanYoshi]

I remember signing this petition back in January. Not the Wikipedia one, but another one which was for the same extradition.

[Zillamaster55]

[QUOTE=Lambeth;36524828]jeez send him to anywhere but america, that place is the fucking pits[/QUOTE]

Have you ever been here before?

I doubt it.

[Hail Satan]

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;36527061]Have you ever been here before?

I doubt it.[/QUOTE]

Well I was born in america

[Ermac20]

signed it sick of hollywood doing bullshit like this

[Chonch]

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;36524182][B]A impowdant buhtishn fwum Mickymebia fowndow Dimmy Wawes[/B][/QUOTE]
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NOBUBBEH GIB DIMMY NO SIBNATURS
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DIMMY GUNNA HOWD HIS BRELF TILL SOMBUBEH SIN DIMMYS BUHTITUN

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NOBUBBEH GIB DIMMY NO SIBNATURS
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DIMMY GUNNA HOWD HIS BRELF TILL SOMBUBEH SIN DIMMYS BUHTITUN[/QUOTE]
how extremely random of you

[Liem]

Signed it, because the US has no power on UK soil and should mind their own fucking business. Furthermore I don't really think the guy did anything wrong

[Awaken90125]

Signed because the 24 year old is totally fuckable

[ycap5]

[QUOTE=Lambeth;36524828]jeez send him to anywhere but america, that place is the fucking pits[/QUOTE]

Hahahahahahahahahaha

[QUOTE=Sie-Sveinhund;36528929][t]http://chanarchive.org/content/50_b/289614029/1290599106830.jpg[/t]
NOBUBBEH GIB DIMMY NO SIBNATURS
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DIMMY GUNNA HOWD HIS BRELF TILL SOMBUBEH SIN DIMMYS BUHTITUN[/QUOTE]

Okay jimmy, don't do anything stupid now. Here's one trillion dollars.

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[Oskutin]

Meet the [B]INFLATION[/B]
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[rrkpp_]

[quote]10 years in prison for alleged copyright offences after setting up a website with links to TV shows called TVShack.com[/quote]

ten years in prison for linking to fucking tv shows holy shit

[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=IliekBoxes;36525079]So he should be sent to North Korea instead, amirite?[/QUOTE]

He would just have to say he harmed the American capitalist economy and he would be hailed, invited to a dinner with the glorious leader, and have several statues erected.

[st_nick5]

Signed this a few days ago. Got this in an email today:

[quote]

In just 3 days, more than 80,000 people -- including you -- have signed Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales's petition to stop the extradition of British citizen Richard O'Dwyer.

Here's an update from Jimmy:

[b]"I've met this week with members of House of Commons and House of Lords about Richard's case and they had all heard about the petition and all were supportive! Another hard push for signatures will help me help those friendly politicians push this up to Home Secretary Theresa May and even Prime Minister David Cameron."[/b]

Can you help Jimmy reach 100,000 signatures before Friday by sharing this petition with your friends on Facebook and Twitter?

The Home Secretary is preparing to publish an official government response on the review of UK extradition law in the coming weeks, so now is the time when a huge display of public support has the potential to make her step in and stop Richard's extradition.

Share the petition with your friends now on Facebook, Twitter or to share via email just forward the email below.

Thanks for being part of this,

- Brie and the Change.org team

-------- Email to forward to your friends --------

Hi,

I just signed the petition started by Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales "UK Home Office: Stop the extradition of Richard O'Dwyer to the USA #SaveRichard" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 100,000 signatures by Friday and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

[url]http://www.change.org/petitions/ukhomeoffice-stop-the-extradition-of-richard-o-dwyer-to-the-usa-saverichard[/url]

Thanks.
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[Mingebox]

[QUOTE=Lambeth;36524828]jeez send him to anywhere but america, that place is the fucking pits[/QUOTE]

Well I wouldn't say the pits, maybe just the divots.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=oskutin;36532003]Meet the [B]INFLATION[/B]
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[Ermac20]

[QUOTE=Kopimi;36532021]ten years in prison for linking to fucking tv shows holy shit[/QUOTE]

just trying to make an example so no one else does it

[DainBramageStud]

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