I'm 100% pro vaccine and I love shaming anti-vaxxers, but I dislike this notion of shutting people up. You can buy The Anarchists Cookbook on Amazon, which teaches you how to make bombs and drugs, but you can't buy the dipshittery of anti-vaxx propaganda?
We have the facts on our side. These kinds of selective shows of force only serve to embolden the dumb asses. The answer to bad speech is good speech, not suppression.
And yes, Amazon is free to do whatever they want, that doesn't mean it's wise or right.
Bro there a book called the anarchistic cookbook that’s sold on Amazon that will teach you how to make bombs. It’s like 7.99 on kindle read it on your tablet. I’m sure there are other explanations for it out there too.
https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1684111374
50 years later, The Anarchist Cookbook is still the go-to for explosives and/or narcotics made from household goods. Plenty of other stuff, too, but it hasn't all aged as well as the explosives and narcotics. (link is to the mass-published 2016 version, too lazy to fix it.)
There are also various 'underground' updated versions that touch on things like computer hacking and emps, but there are probably better sources for those.
And if nothing else, studying the author will give you an insight into the mind of the more extreme part of the 60s/70s anti-government counterculture movement and also a pre-streisand example of the streisand effect.
Also, not a book, but 1(844) NEED-SCI is a real phone number dedicated to answering general science questions from filmmakers to make sure nothing like The Core ever happens again.
I remember reading someone's story about how he was in his college's/military base/whatever chat rooms shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing, where I guess either students were making edgy jokes about it or were sharing The Anarchist Cookbook (or both). From what I remember, some serious punishments and orders were handed out to all of the involved students.
I think I also remember another guy (it might've been here on Reddit) talking about how a lot of edgy kids were sharing edgy jokes after Columbine on AOL.
I'll admit that I was either not around or way too young when these events happened, so I sort of have to look at archives/stories/whatever to get a better picture of what everything was like at these times (which, honestly, aren't too far off from what I experience as a young modern-day guy). Still, even in the infancy of sites like YouTube, I still remember fiery shit storms in the comment sections.
Perfectly legal.
Just don’t start to make one without ATF approval
https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1684111374/ref=nodl_
Lol. You can literally just buy this on Amazon UK.
>dirty bomb blueprints
A dirty bomb is just a bomb with hard to get radioactive or toxic materials
And bomb-making IS protected under the first amendment. Books like the anarchist cookbook tested this.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/history-do-it-yourself-weapons-and-explosives-manuals-america
But the anarchist cookbook WAS published, people charged with only it's possession have been acquitted. The words themselves are not the crime, it's how you use that information.
The first amendment wasn't made so we can talk about the weather. It was to protect very controversial things.
You can discuss social norms, but it's not the job of the government to regulate morality.
(You can buy it today https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1684111374 on Amazon)
No age requirement.
>now in its 29th printing since 1971, has chapters on home preparation of weapons, electronics, drugs, and explosives. Extensively illustrated.
This reminds me about how PGP was published.
PGP was considered weapons back then, this was basically handing enemies encryption so they could use it to attack the United States. with the red scare this was probably more controversial at the time than Korea.
The first amendment was really tested when in order to spread this new disruptive technology to the world he published the source code in a book.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann
So yes, these laws protecting free speech under all occasions is what sets our republic apart from the rest of the world. And absolutely important under all occasions.
> Simply owning a destructive device described in it is a "Federal crime of violence".
Umm... citation? Please cite the specific section that says this, since I am not finding anything that confirms this.
But even if you can cite it, you are still wrong. No one said anything about owning an explosive. The question was explicitly about teaching, not about owning. The citation you gave was about teaching. You then claimed that "intent doesn't matter", when the very citation you gave explicitly says intent matters.
> Therefore, any audience viewing and using the tutorial to make a destructive device is committing a "Federal crime of violence".
This is just laughably absurd. Do you really not think I could make a tutorial without actually owning a bomb? You have never seen a recipe? A written tutorial? Hell, even if I taught you in person and walked you through the process, I could do so using fake ingredients.
> And, therefore, you would be in violation of the law knowing the information you provided was used to create said destructive device.
You have never learned something simply for the sake of curiosity? I have watched videos and read tutorials on many things that I will likely never do.
> It's a whole lot of cyclical lawyer speak basically making anything about bomb making illegal.
I think it is safe to assume that you are not a lawyer?
Simply providing the information DOES NOT show intent.
> It would be easier for the Federal government to prove you provided the education knowing someone out there would use it illegally than it would be for you to prove you knew every single person that obtained the information would not use it illegally.
Yes... Which is why if the intent did not matter they would not explicitly write it into the law that it does.
Your argument is just incredibly stupid. It literally makes no sense at all for them to include two very specific clauses about intent if they mean it to apply universally. They would only be providing a possible loophole that people could get out of.
And of course if you are right, then Amazon is very publicly in violation of federal law.
Capitalism doesn't care. It's available on Amazon Canada right now for $40 CAD in hardcover and is even Prime eligible.
Uhm, no. It's completely legal to possess the Anarchist Cookbook and always has been. No one has ever been arrested or convicted for owning it. And far from that, it's protected by the First Amendment.
The FBI has even stated "The Anarchist Cookbook does not incite "forcible resistance to any law of the United States" and is therefore protected under the First Amendment."
In fact it's available for purchase on pretty much every book website and by order in any bookstore today. You can get it on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and even Kindle edition.
You can also buy other books, that are actually more accurate, of this type LEGALLY any day of the week, again First Amendment.
Not if they're only teaching theory. You can literally buy books with IED instructions from Amazon and have them delivered to your front door.
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https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1684111374
Looks like they put it back on
It's got almost 5 out of 5 stars on Amazon though!
https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1684111374
Here’s the amazon link for a copy https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1684111374
When I was a teen I read the anarchists handbook. That sub looks nothing like what I read. What is this weird sub masquerading as anarchism? Honestly, there's almost nothing anarchist about that sub. What am I missing here?
Edit: Ah the Cookbook. My bad, I read it about 15 years ago. Definitely worth a read. https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1684111374
Bleh. If kids being interested in guns and explosives is reason for concern then I think every damn kid that's lived since the internet is a thing would be a potential threat. Also, I would like to point out that the anarchist cookbook is for sale on Amazon.
As for these attack plans... I've strategized myself on "if I were an (insert cause here) terrorist, how could I go for maximum impact on society?" just because it is fun to do. Personally I've concluded that you're better off taking on the high tension electrical grid - blacking out a nation (with some coordination that would be possible) has a far greater impact then a high body count. But I've got no plans to commit any such act, 'cause I rather like my life as it is. Does that make me "far-right"?