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Re:Radical Islam Website Readers May Be Prosecuted by CWuestefeld on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @01:17PM (#7467201)
It really is troubling.

Is there any similar law in the US?

I think a conclusion you'd have to draw from the Pentagon Papers controversy is that if the gov't want to keep something secret, it's their own responsibility to do so. Once the information leaked, it was then legal to print the documents. And if that's true, then it must also be legal to read them.

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Re:Radical Islam Website Readers May Be Prosecuted by BuildTheRobots on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @01:49PM (#7467482)
Actually, I'm relatively certain that within current legal frameworks, public, published documents can be retroactively classified making you a criminal if you refuse to hand back your copy.
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Re:Radical Islam Website Readers May Be Prosecuted by hga on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @05:11PM (#7468994)
Something like that can be true for nuclear weapons related stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret
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