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Re: 17-year-old Bitcoiner faces prison for tweeting about... You guessed it! Bitcoin
by
WhatTheGox
on 11/06/2015, 21:14:14 UTC
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/jihadist-us-teen-faces-prison-for-blog-tweets-about-encryption-and-bitcoin/

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Dana Boente, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said the youth's guilty plea "demonstrates that those who use social media as a tool to provide support and resources to ISIL will be identified and prosecuted with no less vigilance than those who travel to take up arms with ISIL."

According to the defendant's signed "Admission of Facts" filed Thursday, Amin started the @amreekiwitness Twitter handle last June and acquired some 4,000 followers and tweeted about 7,000 times. (The Twitter handle has been suspended.) Last July, the teen tweeted a link on how jihadists could use Bitcoin "to fund their efforts."

But, if you're a US banker...

But, if the teen would've tweeted how US dollars could be used to fund said efforts...

Yeah this means hes tweeting about supporting things they didnt like.  It wouldnt matter if he suggested cash in hand as a means to support jihadists he would still face the same issues.