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I see 2 claims: 1. The suggested materials are not for building bombs. 2. No one would be radicalized to build bombs by following shopping recommendations.
by avip 9y ago
I see 2 claims:
1. The suggested materials are not for building bombs.
2. No one would be radicalized to build bombs by following shopping recommendations.
Since uncharacteristically, he did not provide very good support to any of the above claims, I feel free to opt-in with my own made-up opinion:
[1] is False. The materials ARE for building bombs. The "bearing balls" ARE what author says they are not (using an extremely unconvincing argument), and Mr idlewords is mistaken wrt how much data is used to build recommendations engines.
[2] is True
- eridius 9y agoThe article did provide reasonable support for claim 1. Thousands or tens of thousands of people would have to buy the combination for it to be recommended, and aspiring terrorists don't usually purchase their terrorism supplies in a manner that makes it trivially easy to identify them (since Amazon knows who its customers are). The article also provided a far more plausible explanation for the recommendation than people building bombs.