Page 1 of Channel 4 thinks Amazon provides terrorists with bombs

http://idlewords.com/2017/09/anatomy_of_a_moral_panic.htm

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On September 18, the British Channel 4 ran a news segment with the headline, 'Potentially deadly bomb ingredients are ‘frequently bought together’ on Amazon.'The piece claims that “users searching for a common chemical compound used in food production are offered the ingredients to produce explosive black powder” on Amazon’s website, and that “steel ball bearings often used as shrapnel” are also promoted on the page, in some cases as items that other customers also bought.

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And this leads us to the most spectacular assertion in the Channel 4 report, that along with sulfur and charcoal, Amazon’s algorithm is recommending detonators, cables, and "steel ball bearings often used as shrapnel in explosive devices."

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The main consumer use for thermite, as far as I can tell, is lab demonstrations and recreational chemistry. Importantly, thermite is not an explosive—it will not detonate.

So Channel 4 has discovered that fireworks enthusiasts and chemistry teachers shop on Amazon.

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On a similar theme given the amount of times t'internet is blamed for this and allowing terrorists to communicate with the 'appropriate hashtags' it's a constant wonder to me how The Royal Mail escaped censure for all those years.

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its all just ongoing deliberate propaganda and fake news plugged by the media to keep you being worried 24/7 about possible terrorism going on in your neighbourhood. Just do not look at it.