Ethical Question

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

So as a gesture of civil disobedience we should all use them as much as possible or put them in our sigs or something.

Um... fun idea, already been scrapped by one of the mods (Mickey, I think) when one of the teens decided to taunt Big Brother on a thread. You're a day late and a dollar short, darling.

[Spectacular Sameth]

I wouldn't be upset. I'm mainly a fantasy writer. I'd be surprised and shocked, but not upset.

[Moritz]

I will give you one warning regarding working on books/stories about terrorists and the like.  It's pretty much for people living in the US...watch your research!

phew, glad that I live in Europe. But yeah, my own bookshelf can also raise some eyebrows. Does anyone know if someone watches amazon wishlists? I'm not sure about how that coup d'etat guidebook comes across.

Anyways... I wouldn't feel responsible in general, because I do not believe that the media are responsible for bad behavior. I might emotionally feel a bit guilty though. Depends on what happened and how it was connected to a book.

[AverageGuy]

Supposedly, the NSA has it's own little Web bots that go crawling through emails, Web pages and forums, like this one, looking for keywords like C-4, ammonium nitrate, Al Quaida, Bin Laden, assassinate, etc., and flagging them for Homeland Security. 

So codewords are all the terrorists need to win?