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>>hhs+(OP)
The slide into hell is steep and slippery. I’m afraid we’re in a dark period of history that’s only going to get darker.

I want proponents of this tech to explain something to me. Why has the rate of stochastic terrorism only increased since the NSA and Palantir started spying on all of us? Isn’t the whole point of this to preempt those kinds of things?

>>therob+mi
> stochastic terrorism

This is a bugbear for me. The point of terrorism is that it’s a random act of violence.

>>bckr+Qk
Terrorism isn't even an actual action. Its a threat of a random action to the public.

For example, saying "there is a planned school shooting at a school in $metro_city", even though there is absolutely nobody doing that - that causes terror. Doesn't have to be backed by any actions at all.

Like, with the shooting of UHC CEO, there was no grandiose statements or otherwise causing terror ahead of time. It was 3 bullets and leave.

>>mystra+Rm
They did fail to prove terrorism in court in that case - I think generally there needs to be some attempt to use the terror to achieve a political aim or change public opinion?

Just making people afraid is a different thing.