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An important part of the NSA problem is that terrorist conspiracies are a largely imaginary boogeyman. The vast majority of its collection is unwarranted. But t
by closeparen 6y ago
An important part of the NSA problem is that terrorist conspiracies are a largely imaginary boogeyman. The vast majority of its collection is unwarranted. But the pandemic is real, we know that the damage it does is directly related to the effectiveness of contact tracing, and we know that anyone having contacts outside the household is doing an unusual and extremely dangerous thing.
This is more like tailing people who buy bombs and visit crowded public places with them.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoYou are not only surveilling those that do "unusual and extremely dangerous things" as in they get within a few meters of other people, you are surveilling everyone. This is not just tailing people who buy bombs.
- bad_user 6y agoThe moment you start seeing regular people as terrorists, that's when you've lost the plot ;-)
- closeparen 6y agoTerrorists dream of inflicting as much damage as "regular people" do when they continue acting like regular people in a pandemic.