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lysace ◴[] No.46245508[source]
Fighting extremist terrorism requires tough measures. This one is a bit extra though:

> If the software cannot be deployed remotely, the law authorizes officers to secretly enter a person’s home to gain access.

Clear Das Leben der Anderen vibes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others)

However: As usual, the devil is in the details. How much suspicion is required, what's the process, etc. (I assume that a judge needs to sign off.)

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nabnob ◴[] No.46245695[source]
What are you calling "extremist terrorism"?
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lysace ◴[] No.46245726[source]
E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Berlin_truck_attack (13+1 deaths, 56 injured)
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josefritzishere ◴[] No.46245755[source]
That was almost 10 years ago. That does not an existential threat make.
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sapientiae3 ◴[] No.46245882{3}[source]
The interesting thing is that the laws being created to protect against such extreme attacks will be used against the people when they are controlled by an extreme group.
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1. mmooss ◴[] No.46246580{4}[source]
That's how radicalization works, a pretty well-defined tactic as I understand it:

How do you get free, prosperous, safe people to give all that up for what you offer? It sounds almost impossible. You manufacture fear and division - look at terrorism, or the uses of demonization in many places - and then they may be willing to change.

Remember that Eisenhower said, 'the only thing we have to fear is fear itself'. Eisenhower, who led the militaries of West through arguably the greatest crisis in their history, who was leading the West through the Cold War. He knew crisis, and that is what he said. That's what genuine leaders do.

Those who use spread fear and radicalization are not after security and freedom, but after power.