[gruez]

It's burying the lede because the title makes it sound like the authorities in France are going around finding tor/linux users and arresting them, when what actually happened is that the group was surveilled because they were known to have fought in syria, and after they came back they were also using tor/linux. Don't get me wrong, arresting them for that reason is still an injustice, but it's misleading to paint the whole situation as "arrested for using linux and encryption".

[southerntofu]

> the group was surveilled because they were known to have fought in syria

That's not correct. One person fought against Daech in Syria, then a few years later a dozen persons get arrested ; most of them don't know one another. You can't really talk about a "group" and certainly can't say they took arms when only one of them did (and for an arguably very good cause which was approved by the State on paper).

I agree with you the video title is misleading, though.

[sterlind]

but ultimately that's what happened. they're charged with criminal conspiracy, but rather than alleging some specific plot, the prosecutors say that using Tor and Tails proves their clandestine nature, and that nature is incriminating in and of itself.

them fighting alongside YPG has nothing to do with why they were arrested, it's just backstory.