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from the time-to-start-torrenting-on-a-gigabit-connection dept.
PC World reports on the story of an American teenager who has been sentenced to eleven years in jail and who will have his Internet use monitored by the government for the rest of his life.
His crime was to assume that his Constitutionally-protected Freedom of Speech included posting pro-ISIS messages on Twitter and other social media.
"Today's sentencing demonstrates that those who use social media as a tool to provide support and resources to ISIL will be identified and prosecuted with no less vigilance than those who travel to take up arms with ISIL," said U.S. Attorney Dana Boente...
[Ali Shukri Amin] created the Twitter account @AmreekiWitness in 2014, and used it to provide advice and encouragement to ISIS and its supporters, according to court documents. At one point the account had over 4,000 followers. He also helped other ISIS supporters who sought to travel to Syria to join the group, according to the Justice Department.
The question that Soylentils should ask is, "What groups do I belong to that someone in government might decide are 'terrorist', and am I at risk for speaking out?"
The Canadian government for instance has come within a hair of declaring prominent environmental groups to be terrorists.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Monday August 31 2015, @01:54PM
Come on really, as long as you never speak up for anything, you are not at risk. Just don't do something the people in power don't like and you'll be fine. Live your life on the income the company has decided is fair, go voting for one of the nice faces at elections every four years, and take care of your family. That's all that's expected of you.
I do all that except I don't vote and I advocate for secession. I'm safe, right?
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @05:37PM
If your advocation for secession involves or eventually involves violence against the Union, you're a seditionist.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Monday August 31 2015, @07:30PM
I advocate for secession.
If your advocation for secession involves or eventually involves violence against the Union, you're a seditionist.
I'm a pacifist and non-violent. But of course obviously when people want to secede if anyone opposes them with force they are justified in responding with proportional force. Many laws on the books are unjust to enforce.
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @10:51PM
and I advocate for secession.
See ya. Just remember that your state - whichever one it is - will lose all US federal dollars and your state will plunge into economic hardship almost immediately. Hope you like high taxes because that's what you'll get to try to stabilize your soon-to-be-worthless homemade currency.