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Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic... by tsunamifury on Friday November 20, 2015 @11:31AM (#10602043)
This is impossible. One of the problems with the blatant misuse of forecasting is governments using it it to compare outrageous black swan futures against real history. It leads to claiming that "spying on everyone 24/7 to prevent an infinite number of terror attacks" is in everyones interest. The reality is that a limited number of black-swan terror attacks is actually a minimal cost compared to destroying social fabric modern western society is built on.

This type of false thinking is what allows government officials to manipulate public thought into agreeing to give up their rights. This has literally led to the FBI radicalizing young men in order to 'catch them' in the act -- thus justifying their existence by creating the very black-swan event they are supposed to stop.

Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic... by hokkos on Friday November 20, 2015 @11:41AM (#10602105)
For now it seems that terrorist attacks made more impact on social fabric than US or French surveillance.
Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic... by loup-vaillant on Friday November 20, 2015 @12:00PM (#10602247)
Well, they did enable government to implement those surveillance programs. It was already in the works, but terrorism is a wonderful pretext (along with paedophilia, Nazism, and starving authors).