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US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter
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."
here's how to use bitcoin, or did he tweet, hey Jihadists, here's how to use bitcoin and evade the NSA ? It makes a big difference.
(No, I did not RTFA.)
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
At some point, you can't be held for responsible for the intentions of others
Yes, at some point. There *is* a big grey middle, but the edges are also pretty clear.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
The kid had to be put up to it, there is no anonymity involved when you have the entire blockchain with TX times and IP addys at your fingertips. I'd wager there is a bank in the wood pile. For anon, cash is the only option so screw the fed for promoting not only counterfeit money, but terrorism as well, and putting agents of the alphabet soup kind up to shit like this as a dig at crypto currency. As corrupt as the US has become, you pricks had to know a comment like this would come up.
You're right. Treason is constitutionally punishable by death, after all. We could avoid that problem rather easily.
Whatever you want to call what he did, you can't call it treason.
Treason is defined clearly in the US constitution as aiding or giving comfort to an enemy at a time of war declared by Congress. The last time Congress delcared war was in 1942.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
My grandmother said that you could bitch about the government, though you would not be allowed to do that on TV or radio. Well, at least after Stalin's death.
Also, I am not saying that the US is the same as Russia (or USSR), but it's getting there. If this continues, then after a few decades, it may become even more of a police state than USSR ever was. After all, the various agencies have spying capabilities that the KGB could only dream about. Automatic tracking of cars by photographing license plates, internet data mining, call data mining (speech recognition beats a guy listening to one conversation at a time).