Nothing is as it seems

Golly. This is an allegory, and an interesting insight into the way the internet actually works versus the way we think it works. A small taste:

A long time ago, people used signposts to get where they wanted to go. Each signpost was a little underlined phrase in blue that took you to a new place. People would wander all over the place, hopping from one place to another, looking at signposts to see where to go next. These signposts made a sort of map.

Sounds like me!

And on an entirely different subject, this is... just frightening:

Their alleged “crime” was that the graduate student had downloaded an Al-Qaeda training manual from a US government website for research purposes, as he’s writing his MA dissertation on Islamic extremism and international terrorist networks. He had then sent this to his friend in the Department of Engineering for printing. The printed material had been spotted by other staff and reported to the University authorities who passed on the information to the police.

And to add additional possibility for extreme error, they've recently upped the number of days you can be held without charge to 28. That's all well and good if you trust your government to only pick the guilty people. But it is ungodly stupid to trust your government. Particularly about something like this. Laws exist explicitly so that people don't have to trust their government.

I guess maybe it's good to see that it's not just America.