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posted by martyb on Monday August 31 2015, @09:48AM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @05:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @05:37PM (#230299)

    I advocate for secession.

    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

    by jdavidb (5690) on Monday August 31 2015, @07:30PM (#230394) Homepage Journal

    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.

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    ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings