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Without looking into the case, I have to say this seems quite depressing, especially for what most people still think of as a free society. What about a journal
by leephillips 6y ago
Without looking into the case, I have to say this seems quite depressing, especially for what most people still think of as a free society. What about a journalist or scholar, who may be monitoring these groups? You can be jailed merely for watching what they are up to, without participating or endorsing them?
- rtkwe 6y agoI'd wager the law is written more as a way to be able to charge people who the authorities are concerned about but haven't provably done anything yet. Not that that's much better but that's the slightly more reasonable application of the law. There's been several times where the people who've gone on to do attacks were known to whatever the national security services were but hadn't been caught actually planning the thing. It's the kind of law that'd be great in a world where government is and could be guaranteed to always be run by angels and saints but is absolutely untenable in the real world.