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comment by user-inactivated

What?

So it's now a terrorist crime in the UK to accidentally end up on the wrong website by accident? I know people who would accidentally run into something like that and have no idea what they were watching, nor would they know who James Foley is or what happened to him.

The UK scares the shit out of me. It sounds like if you don't follow current events you can be classified a terrorist, and if you follow current events you are an extremist. It's a lose-lose situation.

Plus, what if there is an expert in facial recognition that wants to help identify the guy. Right now it's currently unclear if he's the guy in the video, right?

Disclaimer: I haven't seen the video, please don't classify me as a terrorist.





havires  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you're not in the UK you're ok.

user-inactivated  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How do you know?

havires  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The keyword in that sentence IF

    IF you're not in the UK you're ok.

EDIT: I don't know, I was trying to be optimistic. -1 to my optimism.

user-inactivated  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I understood what you said. How do you know someone not living in the UK is okay? We've discovered secret things that classify citizens as extremists or terrorists in the past, and the GCHQ has a close relationship with the NSA, as does the entire UK and US governments.