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US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter

Posted by timothy on from the don't-ever-edit-wikipedia dept.

jfruh writes: Ali Shukri Amin, a 17-year-old from Virginia, has pleaded guilty to charges that he aided ISIS by giving the group advice about using bitcoin. An odd and potentially troubling aspect of the charges is that this all took place in public — he Tweeted out links to an article on his blog about how bitcoin and Darknet could help jihadi groups, making it difficult to say whether he was publishing information protected under free speech or was directly advising the terrorist organization. Free speech qua speech isn't the only relevant charge, though: Amin "also admitted facilitating the travel of another teenager, 18-year-old Reza Niknejad, to Syria to join IS. Amin faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison if convicted."

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  1. ISIS is a CIA operation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    ISIS is a CIA false flag operation. This is all just lies and obfuscation. ISIS is also the name of the goddess the CIA and illuminati types worship.

    1. Re:ISIS is a CIA operation by ganjadude · · Score: 3, Funny

      is that what "they" told you???

      --
      have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
  2. Re:Strategically speaking... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So this has come up in a number of countries already.

    eg Australia has a number of now ex-jihadi's and ex-Mujh (of a several flavours) wanting to come back to Australia, having spent time in caliphate

    This is proving problematic as of course they can come back, but essentially face court proceedings and extensive jail time before they can rejoin society, and they aren't all that keen on paying that entry tax.

  3. you left something out by cstacy · · Score: 2, Funny

    US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About 3D Printing Bitcoins Via Twitter

    ftfy

  4. Hello ISIL ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hello ISIL and all other banned groups, criminals, conspirators, freedom fighters, druglords, mafioso, cash hoarders, money launderers, anarchists, revolutionaries, gun and rum runners, privacy nuts, journalists, lobbyists, leakers, whores, et al...

    HERE is where you learn about money...
    https://bitcointalk.org/
    HERE is how you move money around...
    https://bitcoin.org/
    HERE is how you hide data...
    https://www.gnupg.org/
    HERE is how you move data around...
    https://geti2p.net/
    HERE is how you secure your computer...
    http://www.openbsd.org/
    HERE is a bunch more shit to play around with...
    https://www.prism-break.org/

    These are all dual use technologies, fully protected by freedom of speech, privacy, and other memes.
    They're also basically the top search results in their respective classes as you have already discovered on your own.
    Anyone telling you about them, educating you how to use them, even how to apply them to your cause... is engaging in fully protected free speech.
    Killing someone is not.