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Those who want to keep the current draconian status quo in place are incentivized to make public any wins, it would justify the existence of the extreme measure
by kilna 5y ago
Those who want to keep the current draconian status quo in place are incentivized to make public any wins, it would justify the existence of the extreme measures. The fact that they haven't boasted about any win is telling.
- dane-pgp 5y agoYes, and we should also be aware of a rhetorical strategy used by surveillance state apologists where they alternate between "The lack of recent terrorist attacks proves that mass surveillance works, so we should extend it to fight other crimes" and "The recent attack shows that we need more surveillance powers to protect ourselves".