As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
Looks like both the feds and state law enforcement / intelligence agencies are tracking the Zizians now.
@lurker I don’t understand what “target” means in this context. Is there a crime to be investigated? As far as I know, you can’t be prosecuted for beliefs.
They literally jailed a guy for making light of Charlie Kirk’s bullet related mishap in social media, and a group of pro-palestine protestors winning their case after months of trials is still fresh on the news.
Sure it counts, getting out of indeterminate time pre-trial holding with a payout after the state has charged you with a felony is a hell of a dice roll, compared to the alternative of not exercising free speech in the first place.
yeah not every defendant has the resources to contact the right legal help to get the detention overturned or compensated
like, say you get held without bond for 2 or 3 weeks, then released, you might lose your job or miss paying rent or any number of other real world effects, this has an obvious chilling effect on speech
@lurker I don’t understand what “target” means in this context. Is there a crime to be investigated? As far as I know, you can’t be prosecuted for beliefs.
They literally jailed a guy for making light of Charlie Kirk’s bullet related mishap in social media, and a group of pro-palestine protestors winning their case after months of trials is still fresh on the news.
So you most certainly can be prosecuted.
Counting or not counting prosecutions that end with the defendent vindicated and almost a million dollars richer?
Sure it counts, getting out of indeterminate time pre-trial holding with a payout after the state has charged you with a felony is a hell of a dice roll, compared to the alternative of not exercising free speech in the first place.
Also this only works as long as the legal system isnt taken over.
Sadly due to a large increase of crime the time until your case will go to trial has increased to … three years
… five years
… ten years
… thirty years
… a hundred years …
In the mean time, make yourself useful to society by working in jail to earn your keep.
yeah not every defendant has the resources to contact the right legal help to get the detention overturned or compensated
like, say you get held without bond for 2 or 3 weeks, then released, you might lose your job or miss paying rent or any number of other real world effects, this has an obvious chilling effect on speech
@Architeuthis That’s crazy. What’s the crime?
the anarchist in the audience sitting on the edge of their seat
Posting memes about the killing on facebook apparently: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-tennessee-man-was-jailed-over-his-charlie-kirk-social-media-comments-now-hes-won-a-835000-settlement
The Palestine Action stuff was in the UK, my bad.