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 q.kontinuum on Monday August 31 2015, @03:20PM
As far as I'm concerned, my most evil reaction would be to rate it off-topic (although I don't like the attitude some people have here to rate everything off-topic which doesn't match the topic of the initial submission. Discussions evolve, and as long as a reply is on topic in regard to the immediate parent post, I find it counter-productive to rate it off topic).
You seem to focus on biological gender and want the term to be understood in that sense. I can sympathize with that view, without giving up my conviction that from a social point of view people should be allowed live as the gender they feel most comfortable with. Like in Life of Brian [50webs.com] (look for "I want to be a woman.").
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday August 31 2015, @09:56PM
You know what happens when you refuse to accept that words have meanings? You get people declaring newborns are racist and colleges trying to replace him and her with zym and zer [youtube.com] because hey, don't want to not support diversity now do we?
If we lived in a sane world? I would agree with you but we do not live in a sane world so we really have to draw lines in the sand and refuse to let them just throw out the meanings of words because otherwise? the batshit brigade WILL abuse every inch that you give them on the subject.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @06:47PM
You know what happens when you refuse to accept that words have meanings?
You know what happens when you refuse to accept that language changes over time? You look like a god damn idiot.