UK Cops Say Visiting the Dark Web Is a Potential Sign of Terrorism
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Of course there's nothing nefarious about opening an account two weeks before you move to a new place, but it would get you looked at because so many people who did were fraudsters.
The goofy thing about this story is the fact that they circulated a leaflet listing something like this as suspicious behavior. They're going to get buried under bogus tips from nosy neighbors as actual terrorists avoid doing this kind of stuff publicly.
It's the way they worded it. Too encompassing. Lacking information, and yes, distributing leaflets. People who doesn't understand what the dark web is will simply believe what they've read. (And "dark" being in the phrase…)
"travels for long periods of time, but is vague about where they're going" -- seriously?! Must every citizen post their travel itinerary now?
"is visiting the dark web, or ordering unusual items online" -- well, they need to start arresting thousands if not millions of people -- also "unusual items" like what? When is something "unusual"?
These UK Cops are spreading FUD and turning people, families, against each other.
But am I the only one that doesn't have a problem with this. The set of people that visit the dark web intersects with the set of terrorists so obviously they should look into those people.
>their spies are terrorists, wow
Their spies are a special case.
If you don't want to abide by the laws of the UK then nobody is forcing you to live here.
It's the same in any government, even more so to the "top ones" because other countries are using them as a "model" or "pattern" for their own use or version. (Although of course, it's not your country's problem.)
From where I live, we're already battling this same mindset that "if you have nothing to hide, you don't need [1] encryption; [2] online privacy; [3] dark web; [4] anonymity. And in our neigbouring countries, it's much worse. We're not even "members" of the "Fourteen Eyes".
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The rest of your post makes this hard to believe.
Some laws are dumb and should be broken.
Most social progress throughout history has come from people breaking the law, civil disobedience and dissidence.
Oh please, this is just another way of saying "if you're disenfranchised you don't belong here."
People born in the UK are absolutely forced to live there in the short term-- You need a passport to leave the country, and the means to afford resettlement.