First we lose our friends, then we'll lose our privacy? I was horrified by the reaction of some of my acquaintances back home in France: "Let's imprison all those who went to Syria", "We should forbid Tor if this is what those terrorists used to kill our people", and the now classic "if you don't do anything wrong, you shouldn't have anything to hide".
What's next?
Unless I missunderstood the question and they wanted to imprison all those who have been in Syria.
You could certainly do that on the basis of membership of a proscribed organisation, but...
> They were fighting for the enemy
Which enemy is that? The USA and UK are not currently at war with anyone in a legal sense.
I hope the government lets the state of emergency expire doesn't lower itself to the level of these criminals by taking any further action to undermine justice.
It makes me sad to read such things, especially from the tech-crowd.
Ban Internet because terrorists use it to communicate.