[ummonk]

It is simply a fact that ISIS did successfully radicalize and recruit western teenagers via the internet.

What if anything the government should do to prevent such recruitment is a matter of debate, but you shouldn't pretend such recruitment didn't happen.

[spamizbad]

> It is simply a fact that ISIS did successfully radicalize and recruit western teenagers via the internet.

At no meaningful scale. If some dumbass wants to throw their life away in a foreign country we obviously should use all legal means to discourage that but part of being a liberal democracy means you do in fact have to give people enough freedom (rope) to hang themselves.

[thrashh]

Just like how a bunch of random people paid for flight school classes with cash… oh wait, that ended in 9/11

No one knows what is gonna be credible, but damned if you do and damned if you don’t

[dbfx]

And what did they do about it once they got this information? Yeah that's what I thought.

[thrashh]

You think there’s only one suspicious thing going on at any given moment?

There’s probably hundreds of new things at this very second and probably none of them are going to result in anything, but no one knows that for sure