I don't think you've understood the story you're commenting on.
These people weren't "flagged" as terrorists, they were convicted and sentenced (extremely) harshly.
There’s literally no comparison between “flagging”, which has no legal requirement or no actual consequence without actual trial, and the results of an actual trial.
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This is hardly a new approach or development.
A decade ago, reading Linux Journal would get you flagged as being an extremist : https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4rp5l6/nsa_classifie...
I don't think you've understood the story you're commenting on. These people weren't "flagged" as terrorists, they were convicted and sentenced (extremely) harshly.
Were they giving people 50 years in prison for it back then too?
There’s literally no comparison between “flagging”, which has no legal requirement or no actual consequence without actual trial, and the results of an actual trial.