[csomar]

I don't particularly like what DistruptJ20 is doing and they might be possibly breaking the law. However, asking to identify who visited the website is way over the limit.

People should not be limited to access information and not judged upon it.

[Ntrails]

> People should not be limited to access information and not judged upon it.

Googles recipes for anthrax and home made bomb making techniques

I'm gonna be judged on that

[emilsedgh]

I am an asylum seeker to the U.S. and my application was denied due to classified security concerns. (Hint: I'm a nobody). I'm currently waiting for it to be reviewed.

So every day I find a terms/words which I'm not familiar with (Like Anthrax). I search for it and I'm like damn I shouldn't have searched for this!

So yeah, not knowing what something is and searching for it is seems like a valid use case for searching.

It genuinely frightens me to search for things nowadays.

[csomar]

There are many reasons why someone would want to do that:

- Scientific Curiosity.

- School/University Research.

- Building a real bomb and detonating it on your own private land for your own pleasure.

The idiocy is accepting that researching extreme content is evil. It is not.

There are evil people. Period. Blocking access to information makes life worse for everyone. Evil people will use Trucks, Knifes and maybe their hands?

What's next? Prohibiting cars, trucks, knives and athletic guys who could be more powerful than the average citizen.

[lerpa]

> The idiocy is accepting that researching extreme content is evil. It is not.

The Govt people don't believe that, otherwise they would need to arrest themselves.

They just want to do some terror on the populace to the extent that merely knowing something exists makes you a suspect. That is police state 101, it makes people turn their neighbors in even without much evidence, so they are seen as not involved.

[e12e]

One thing is a supeana for your search history after you've been identified and is under suspicion. Then it's a finite number of suspects data. It's another for Google to actively alert law enforcement based on queries coming in.

Now monitoring who buys anthrax spores seems to strike a more reasonable balance between prevention and tyranny.

Think of it this way; going for an evening walk every night isn't (shouldn't) be suspicious. Until you're being investigated for a child missing from the house at the apex of your regular path. Then your walk might have been "scouting the crime scene".

[stctgion]

Why though? Surely there is still such a thing as intellectual curiosity?

[pc86]

Nobody gets in trouble for searching for and reading about anthrax and chemical delivery systems. But if your ex-wife dies of anthrax poisoning six months later, you will certainly need to have a pretty air-tight alibi to escape suspicion.

The FUD here around "omg if you search for something weird because you're smarter than average the jack-booted Gestapo will arrest you forever!!" is ridiculous.

[wu-ikkyu]

Strawman argument aside, the intelligentsia has always been feared by the state.

[csomar]

No. If you don't have an average IQ, adhere strictly to what the government considers "normal"; you should be put under surveillance immediately and maybe "locked out of society" for being potentially dangerous.

[ethbro]

It's hard to find dangerous people, but it's easy to show huge lists of abnormal people you found...

[timthelion]

I don't get why we have guns rights but not anthrax rights. I want to have a well regulated biological weapons arsinal in my fridge. Is that so much worse than an assult rifle?

[_jal]

I've searched for these things. I probably will again.

What the hell has gone wrong with people? When did curiosity become something Politically Suspect that goodthinkers avoid having?

[ionised]

Pretty sure you can find those things in any decent public library.