[flotillo]

If someone is repeating watching beheading videos, engaging in terrorism forums, reading bomb-making instructions, and other such material, then I would rather prefer the police and the justice system to get involved. Better that than another terrorist attack that could have been stopped.

It saddens me that a rational move to prevent terrorism in its formative stages leads to such a knee-jerk negative reaction, with commenters ranting about "1984" and "infringing our civil liberties" and "leftist censorship" and other such overreacting nonsense.

[beejiu]

What counts as bomb-making instructions? You could probably acquire enough knowledge from chemistry books (stocked in every good government library) and common sense (please correct me if I am wrong).

[flotillo]

Unless the chemistry book has a chapter titled "how to make a bomb to kill lots of people" with full instructions on how to assemble and detonate one using readily sourced materials, then I'm sure such books will be entirely unaffected by police investigations.