"難以衡量的威脅"

青少年和社群媒體為安全人員很難評估的新領域中的一環，但他們的確有受到監控。

近來，一名叫卡麥隆丹波希歐的青年，就讀於美國麻薩諸塞州高中，在網路上發表了一則影片後遭到逮捕。影片內容是青少年饒舌自創曲，提及波士頓馬拉松炸彈事件以及白宮，警方稱其中包含了「擾亂人心的措辭」。

交保金為十億美元，這名青少年以傳達恐怖威脅（州級重罪）罪名被起訴，並可能面臨二十年有期徒刑。

新生代和他們對於社群媒體的使用，已經成為執法機關的焦點，有幾個原因。一是，年輕人通常很容易受到激進主義影響。再者，大眾似乎越來越趨向接受用監視與監督來防止那些恐怖攻擊事件，那抵銷了政府潛在的過度干涉。

根據羅伯歐偉蒂歐，一名費城德雷賽爾大學的刑事司法學教授：「在我那個年代，只因不想去學校就對學校提出炸彈威脅，只會被輕微的處罰。現在這麼做的話，就得因此坐牢，毫無疑問。他們現在對這類要脅更認真看待。」

(International) Hard to Assess Threat levels

Teenagers and Social Media are amongst some of the new areas that security personnel are finding hard to assess, but they are definitely coming under observation.

Recently, a teenager named Cameron Dambrosio, a Mass. high school student in the US, was arrested after posting an online video. The video showed the teen rapping an original song that mentioned the Boston Marathon bombing and the White House, which police say contained disturbing verbiage.

With bail set at $1 billion US dollars, the teen is charged with communicating terrorist threats (a state felony) and faces a 20 year jail sentence.

The younger generation, and their use of social media, have become a focus for law enforcement agencies for several reasons. One is that young people are often vulnerable to radicalization. Another is that there seems to be a more accepting trend amongst the public for monitoring and surveillance use in preventing attacks that offsets the potential governmental overreach.

According to Rob DOvidio, a criminal justice professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, When I was young, calling a bomb threat to your high school because you didnt want to go to school that day was treated with a slap on the wrist. Try that nowadays and youre going to prison, no question about it. They are taking it more seriously now.

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