> If you had any cultural context around the history of violent football hooliganism in the UK If this was a good justification for this kind of measure (abuse

> If you had any cultural context around the history of violent football hooliganism in the UK If this was a good justification for this kind of measure (abuse) can you imagine what Germany should do given their history? Yet they'd rather go for less divisive solutions. What if there are better ways to prevent repeating the mistakes of the past that don't involve making even bigger mistakes? But those ways give more power to all people instead of just some people so I can understand why mass surveillance was the go to instead. > those measures were considered necessary and a re supported by a large part of the public All slippery slopes start somewhere high and this is all people are shown at first. But it's the bottom you should worry about instead.