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by higherpurpose 4116 days ago
Amnesty International released this tool a while ago to see what "crimes" you're committing with your posts in other countries:

http://www.trialbytimeline.org.nz/

Also, once again civil libertarians were right: when US starts arresting people from across the globe for doing "crimes" that hardly have anything to do with its jurisdiction, eventually other countries will start doing the same with Americans, knowing that it's "okay" to do that.

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He wasn't arrested in the US, he was arrested in Abu Dhabi.
I just ran this for two hours and it was still thinking when I gave up. What if anything does it actually do?
That's the point. You're held indefinitely without trial.
I'm curious to know exactly what crimes that you think the US has punished around the world.

Terrorism? Drugs? Copyright?