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Russian boy, 16, is jailed for five years for planning to blow up a virtual building in the Minecraft video game
2022-02-12
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Nikita Uvarov, 16, was sentenced to five years in a penal colony by military court

  • Two others were cleared of criminal charges and handed suspended sentences

  • They were detained in 2020 for spreading leaflets supporting anarchist activist

  • Police found exchange on phones about blowing up an FSB building in Minecraft
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  A thought crime...coming to a court near you.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-02-12 13:11  

#10  Not a hint but supported by actual evidence of real-world coordinated anarchist activity -- nb Russia has a long and unsettling history with violent revolutionary anarchists:

"In summer 2020, Uvarov and two other teenagers were in the Siberian city of Kansk for spreading leaflets in support of a Moscow mathematician and anarchist activist who was on trial for vandalism.

"The trio put one of the leaflets on a local building of the FSB, Russia's powerful domestic security agency and successor of the Soviet-era KGB.

"Police took their phones and said they found an exchange about plans to blow up an FSB building that they had created in the popular block-building game Minecraft."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-12 12:13  

#9  Humpf. When I was a kid, the local hobby store held seminars on building match head pipe bombs.... personally preferred playing with molotovs....
Posted by: Mercutio   2022-02-12 11:32  

#8  Virtual jail or real jail as in "DC Gitmo"?
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-02-12 11:17  

#7  Using video game chat options as a way to coordinate has been a thing since at least World of Warcraft.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-02-12 11:06  

#6  That is what the article hints at:

According to investigators, the three teenagers were learning to make improvised explosive devices and practised detonating them in abandoned buildings.

What they were doing wasn't *all* fantasy. But there's a world of difference between the physics of minecraft and the real world.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-02-12 10:52  

#5  This being the Daily Mail and me being suspicious, I cannot help but wonder if there is something more here beyond playing Minecraft. Back when Doom(tm) was a thing, the US Marines created custom game scenarios for training 4 man fire teams. Could it be that our young hooligans had their eye on a real-world target?
Posted by: SteveS   2022-02-12 10:44  

#4  ^ She's a 5. Looks like a blockheaded Minecraft avatar, actually
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-12 09:10  

#3  Next, they were going to kidnap the Governor of Michigan.
Posted by: Too Old To Work   2022-02-12 08:39  

#2  Judge: "This isn't a game, son..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-12 06:36  

#1  Breakout plan:

  1. Punch trees to get wood.

  2. Use wood to craft crafting table

  3. Use crafting table + wood to craft wood axe and pickaxe.

  4. use Wood Axe to cut more wood

  5. use pickaxe to get stone blocks

  6. use stone blocks and crafting table to craft stone sword and pickaxe

  7. use stone sword to kill any MOBs who get to curious,

  8. use stone pickaxe to dig tunnel under wall

  9. ESCAPE


Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-02-12 01:15  

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