16-year-old in Russia sentenced to 5 years in prison for blowing up the KGB’s virtual building in Minecraft

I mean, yeah that is exactly what this prosecution is all about. Shutting down the wrong type of thinking. FTA:

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

They 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.

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

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