Comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2

<< First thing I thought when reading it. This story makes no sense. Nothing they mentioned in the article is actually illegal.

A lot of things are not, but US for a while has been on a path that suggests that whether something is legal or not is not the standard. The standard is basically, based partially on personal vibes.

Naturally, this comes years after it was normalized in banking, red flag laws and so on, so I suppose this is not a surprise, but I am surprised that people are making 'this is not illegal argument'.

In this setup, illegal does not matter. If it is suspicious, you are in trouble. For example, I invite you to look at DHS/FBI 'signs'[1][2] to report by private orgs:

- Producing or sharing music, videos, memes, or other media that could reflect justification for violent extremist beliefs or activities

Note the could and despair at the future we are gleefully approaching.

Anyway, I don't disagree with you on principle, but I want you to understand that the system behaves differently these days.

https://tripwire.dhs.gov/documents/us-violent-extremist-mobi... https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/counterterrorism/us-viol...