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STM manufactured it, a Turkish company The clients were either the Libyan government (or defense contractor), or the the breakaway faction (or defense contract
by vmception 5y ago
STM manufactured it, a Turkish company
The clients were either the Libyan government (or defense contractor), or the the breakaway faction (or defense contractor), but we don't know which
We don't know who it attacked
We don't know if it killed them
That's frustrating.
Anyway no serious drone introspection is going to come until non-US drones attacks US assets, and ideally because they don't like a US ideology that there is no state-side consensus on changing
- kragen 5y agoA non-US drone attacking USG assets isn't going to see the USG crack down on drones. They might use it to crack down on hacking, encryption, criticism of the USG, unlicensed drones, Bitcoin, competition from China, or copyright infringement, or other things they're against. But they won't use it to crack down on things that they're in favor of, like drones.
- vmception 5y agoI think it will lead to more collaborative efforts to curb drone use, extrajudicial killings against arbitrarily created categories of people such as "non-state enemy combatants" Very akin to bans on mustard gas or nuclear proliferation
- kragen 5y agoThat isn't what happened after 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. Why would this be different?
- vmception 5y agoBecause people will be afraid of an unknown invisible enemy. The legislatures will scramble and pass anything they want and it won't help. You might believe in an omnipotent state that will close all the markets and go after node operators making them cease. I believe that transactions will continue and drones will continue blowing up behind people's heads.
- a9h74j 5y ago> to curb drone use, extrajudicial killings With drones!
- Aeolun 5y agoI imagine there’ll be a lot more introspection if it’s US drones attacking US assets ;)