In the cases people have talked about in the thread so far the most important thing accepting these acts for the terrorism definition they clearly fit 2331 (5) is that it opens up the option of material support charges for the people running and participating in some of these white supremacist groups. If I have to worry that teaching some environmental activist how to use Signal could land me in federal prison, then Nazis should have to worry that teaching someone which types of guns work well in confined environments should face the same. Treating it as a terror threat allows the use of the same resources that are used on other groups to be turned on the well connected network that has committed most of the lethal terror attacks of the past decade.
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