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Linking Dangerously

Posted by michael on from the linking-la-vida-loca dept.

indole writes "Some /.'ers might remember the story of Sherman Austin, a Californina native who created the "anarchy" website raisethefist.com. Besides posting links to bomb-making instructions, the site caught the ire of the FBI for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government. Well, approximately 18 months later Sherman Austin, now age 20, has been sentenced to 1 year in federal prison. According to Austin, 'he took a plea bargain because he feared his case was eligible for a terrorism enhancement, which could have added 20 years to his sentence.' Doubleplusungood."

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  1. Re:seriously screwed up action by IFF123 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And yet you can't scream "fire" in a packed movie theater. Based on your observation, ANY speech should be free, even if it endangers others. But then again, this is slashdot (i.e. "information wants to be free") PS: I do think that this guy went up the river unlawfully...

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  2. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA..... by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Here is an archive.org cache of the site from last year.

    Please, please, please do links in html: <A HREF="http://www.thesite.com/somepage.html"> like this</A>

    Otherwise, us poor pleebes have to clean up what slashdot does to long strings of text.

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