“What? Terror charges for blowing up a virtual building?”and:Nope. Read the article. It is fairly short.
“It’s a whole other level to convict someone for attacking a fake building in a video game.”Alrighty, then:Is it too much to ask one to read the article before believing the click-bait headline?
" A Russian teenager was sent to prison on Thursday for supposedly "training" for terrorist activities and other charges that included blowing up a virtual government intelligence building on the video game Minecraft.
and at the linked source for sentencing:
"A court in Siberia has sentenced a 16-year-old boy to five years in prison in a high-profile terrorism case prompted by plans he had with two friends to add the building of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to the popular video game Minecraft to allow players to blow it up."
Russian Teenager Gets Five Years In Prison In Minecraft 'Terrorism' Case
It must be your water. Or maybe encephalitis from the fecal contamination having entered your ears.
Second sentence refers anti-government activities NOT related to a video game:
“A military court in Siberia sentenced the boy, 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov, to five years for the charges — which stemmed from anti-government leaflets he’d handed out and videos on cellphones belonging to Uvarov and at least two others.”
Next states that in the investigation they ALSO found the video game.
“Authorities also said they’d uncovered a plot by the teens to blow up a virtual building belonging to the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, that they’d built in the block-building game Minecraft.”
“t must be your water. Or maybe encephalitis from the fecal contamination having entered your ears.”
Thanks for the additional info!
The First Eastern District Military Court in the Krasnoyarsk region sentenced Nikita Uvarov on February 10 after finding him guilty of illegal weapons possession and passing through training for implementation of a terrorist act, charges he has rejected since his arrest in fall 2020.
Two other defendants in the case were convicted of illegal weapons possession and handed suspended prison terms of three years and four years, Vladimir Ilkov, the lawyer for one of the two other defendants, told RFE/RL.