Adam Nafa’s case illustrates the vindictiveness with which the U.S. government has pursued Anonymous prosecutions, and the subsequent creeping curtailment of our 1st Amendment rights. As you can see from his statement below, he was indicted for making an Anonymous video, and nothing more. We at Freeanons have long considered his case to be one of the most dangerous forays by the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ offices into repression of what should be considered protected speech.

His case did not get the notice it deserved. We hope that it does now, and we encourage interested journalists to be in touch, in order to discuss the grave issues presented by his prosecution. His judgment is linked here.

“My name is Adam J. Nafa, I’m 20 years old, and until one year ago I was anonymous. On September 26th, 2012 my North Texas home was raided by the FBI. I was arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit computer fraud in violation of the CFAA for doing nothing more than creating and posting a youtube video in protest of Verizon’s lawsuit against the FCC in which they claim they have the first amendment right to censor the internet. Out of all the people named in the complaint I am the only one who was ever arrested or charged. Verizon somehow managed to claim $27,000 in damages to the court for an attack that never even took place. I plead guilty to class A misdeminor computer fraud on may 2nd, 2013 and was sentenced to one year probation, and ordered to pay Verizon $18,500 in restitution. As of mid September Verizon’s lead attorney has declared in open court that if they win against the FCC that they do indeed plan to use Mob-like extortion tactics and internet censorship to make a larger profit. They have clearly stated that they plan to do everything my video accused them of.”

The video in question is posted above.