17-Year-Old Arrested For Terrorist Threats Via Emoji Use On Social Media

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“Osiris Aristy, a 17-year-old from Brooklyn, does not hold back in his Facebook status updates. He posts about his love for blunts and cough syrup, wanting to buy his mother a bigger home, and his disdain for the police.

Most of Aristy’s anti-cop status updates seem tame compared to the vitriol found all over the internet. They are not altogether different from many hip-hop lyrics, where the figure of the cop killer is sometimes an archetype of rebellion and power.” *

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.

*Read more here from http://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolasmedinamora/how-a-post-911-law-can-get-you-arrested-for-your-emoji-choic#.eqJqdkX1d7

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