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Isn't this just telling terrorists where and when to strike targets?
by bubbabojangles 10y ago
Isn't this just telling terrorists where and when to strike targets?
- billybiro 10y agoYeah, because terrorists need help knowing when JFK, LAX or LHR airports are busy.
- known 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
- pjc50 10y agoThere are, to a first approximation, hardly any terrorists in the West, compared to all the other usual causes of premature death (car accidents, suicide, and in the US police shootings & gun accidents). Of the organized terrorists, choice of target isn't going to be influenced by an app; it will be driven by symbolism (Twin Towers), political significance (Charlie Hebdo), availability, and the general fact that large areas of big cities are full of people (7/7 London bombings). There's no complex optimization going on here. Bataclan also appears to have been a vendetta: https://www.ft.com/content/d322a2d8-8df6-11e5-8be4-3506bf20cc2b https://www.ft.com/content/d322a2d8-8df6-11e5-8be4-3506bf20c... Of the unorganized terrorists, the mass shooters: these seem to be extensions of personal grudges where the person goes to their school or workplace and opens fire. Even when the target is a nightclub (Orlando), the choice of target is political (in that case, driven by homophobia).
- merpnderp 10y agoI'm not sure there are many terrorists anywhere else, at least by the normal definition. How many people in Iraq have been killed by civilians with car bombs versus all other causes of death? The point of terrorism isn't to be a likely killer, but to cause irrational terror, thus the name.