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Submission + - Virginia Says Slashdot Users May Be Terrorists 6

Submitted by megamerican on Thursday April 09, 2009 @01:58PM

megamerican writes: A leaked document from a Virginia Fusion Center titled 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment lists Slashdot users and other websites alongside Al-Qaeda, HAMAS, "Lone-Wolf Extremists" and many others as potential terrorists. Slashdot and other websites have been labeled under the ominous sounding title of Anonymous:

A "loose coalition of Internet denizens", Anonymous consists largely of users from multiple internet sites such as 4chan, 711chan, 420chan, Something Awful, Fark, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Slashdot, IRC channels, and YouTube. Other social networking sites are also utilized to mobilize physical protests. Anonymous has no leader and is reliant on the collective power of individuals acting in such a way that benefits the movement.

According to the Report, cell phones, digital music players are signs that you may be a terrorist. It lists podcasting as a cause for concern citing a recent ban by Australia. Citizens for a legitimate government, where the document was leaked to has a write-up here.

Submission + - Internet-9/11 and i-PATRIOT ACT in the Works?

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megamerican

on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @12:54PM

megamerican writes: "
Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig says that Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke told him there would be an internet-9/11 attack and that the Justice Department is waiting for such an attack to implement an already written i-PATRIOT ACT. Lessig stated this during a group panel segment titled "2018: Life on the Net." Legislation such as the PRO-IP Act of 2007: H.R. 4279, that would create an IP czar at the Department of Justice and the Intellectual Property Enforcement Act of 2007: S. 522, which would create an entire 'Intellectual Property Enforcement Network' are just some examples of what may be in the i-PATRIOT ACT.

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