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With assassinations or terrorist attacks it always comes to my mind that this will be misused to try to pass excessive security and surveillance laws.


God forbid someone would learn from these events and make necessary changes.

There’s a middle ground, the US approach of putting your head into the ground unless a donor can benefit financially isn’t necessarily true for the entire world.


That is why I wrote „excessive“. There is a difference between instructing security personnel to be aware of gun violence and e.g. trying to justify weakening E2E encryption and omnipresent autonomous face recognition in public spaces.




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