User catuskoti posted what appears to me to be a civil and insightful comment (reproduced below) which is now dead - as is every other comment but one by this u

User catuskoti posted what appears to me to be a civil and insightful comment (reproduced below) which is now dead - as is every other comment but one by this user, ever since a flagged comment 69 days ago. Most seem civil enough. Is this evidence of a vindictive voting ring, some kind of HN penalty, or just my misalignment with the zeitgeist? As to ISIS, to what extent is this true? A friend of mine recently suggested that ISIS essentially operates like Anonymous - all it really takes to be a member is to declare membership. If this is the case - or even a parallel phenomenon to ISIS proper - then surely that's highly relevant to cases like this? ----- catuskoti 10 hours ago [dead] [-] > Count 1: Membership of a proscribed organisation. Besides the existence of some youtube videos, there is no other evidence that this "daesh" is truly an organization and not just an arbitrary amalgamation of people who share particular symbols or subscribe to particular views. The insurgencies in Iraq and Syria are more correctly classified as violent civilian unrest with gangs taking over particular functions from a discredited Syrian goverment. Putting videos on youtube does not turn any of that into an "organization". For any accusation of imminent lawless action, the prosecution must indicate the reasonably precise time and place where this was supposed to take place. Otherwise, it becomes too easy to accuse everybody and their little sister of plotting that kind of things. The suspect may have sympathies for the ongoing insurgencies in Iraq and Syria, but that is not a valid reason to attack this person for studying the math theorems of his choice.