Feb 11, 2022 10:39 PM
https://futurism.com/russian-teen-prison-minecraft
INTRO: A group of Russian teenagers got in trouble this week for allegedly planning to blow up a fake government building they’d built in Minecraft, according to EuroNews — as opposed to, you know, one that actually exists in the real world.
Two of the three teens were cleared of charges because they cooperated with authorities, but Nikita Uvarov, age 16, was sentenced to five years in prison by a Siberian military court for “training for terrorist activities,” rights lawyer Pavel Chikov told EN and Agence France-Presse via Telegram. “For the last time in this court I want to say: I am not a terrorist,” Uvarov told the Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
According to EN, Uvarov and two others were previously detained in the summer of 2020 for spreading leaflets that supported a Moscow mathematician and anarchist activist on trial for vandalism. The three put one of their leaflets on a local FSB building, which is Russia’s powerful security agency. After police took their phones, they found plans to blow up an FSB building the teens had created in the popular game.
[...] authorities ... leveled “preemptive charges” at teen anarchists and activists before. The problem, of course, is that nobody can accurately predict crime, and tools that create preemptive measures are widely criticized... (MORE - missing details)
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INTRO: A group of Russian teenagers got in trouble this week for allegedly planning to blow up a fake government building they’d built in Minecraft, according to EuroNews — as opposed to, you know, one that actually exists in the real world.
Two of the three teens were cleared of charges because they cooperated with authorities, but Nikita Uvarov, age 16, was sentenced to five years in prison by a Siberian military court for “training for terrorist activities,” rights lawyer Pavel Chikov told EN and Agence France-Presse via Telegram. “For the last time in this court I want to say: I am not a terrorist,” Uvarov told the Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
According to EN, Uvarov and two others were previously detained in the summer of 2020 for spreading leaflets that supported a Moscow mathematician and anarchist activist on trial for vandalism. The three put one of their leaflets on a local FSB building, which is Russia’s powerful security agency. After police took their phones, they found plans to blow up an FSB building the teens had created in the popular game.
[...] authorities ... leveled “preemptive charges” at teen anarchists and activists before. The problem, of course, is that nobody can accurately predict crime, and tools that create preemptive measures are widely criticized... (MORE - missing details)
RELATED (scivillage): What should be considered a crime in the Metaverse?