Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight

Re:Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight by song on Friday November 27, 2015 @01:17PM (#10638256)

That's exactly what disgusts me. I listen to politician's speech that takes advantage of those attacks to push for more censorship, for more sniffing, for a ban on encryptions. It's a tragedy yet the actions of politicians after that makes it even more tragic by destroying our freedom.

It's at times like this that I am ashamed of being French but then I realize that it would be the same in any other country and I become ashamed at the irrationality of my fellow human beings.

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Re:Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight by funkyy on Friday November 27, 2015 @02:12PM (#10638455)

"some" countries, not all. Media wants you to believe all countries have those problems, but that is not true. There is at least two dozens countries that would act on such an event rationally. Damn, even Germany would probably do something about it.

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Re:Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight by song on Friday November 27, 2015 @04:40PM (#10638954)

I wish it were so but I'm not very optimistic. In the past 20 years, I've seen overreaction from politicians in the face of any terrorist attack.

And Germany doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to spying on it's own citizens despite having a substantial percentage of the population who had experience with the Stasi. But you're right that at least things seem to be getting better in Germany.

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Re:Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight by Trill-I-Am on Saturday November 28, 2015 @04:48AM (#10640640)

The Snowden revelations plainly showed that all of Western Europe participates in Five Eyes mass surveillance of their populaces snd others

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Re:Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight by hokkos on Friday November 27, 2015 @02:40PM (#10638562)

Encryption limitation only come from CIA, FBI and US politicians.

Censorship of Islamist propaganda is needed when we have 1500 terrorists citizen in Syria and Iraq.

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Re:Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight by song on Friday November 27, 2015 @04:31PM (#10638920)

We had French politicians talking about limiting encryptions this time.

Censorship doesn't work. It just drives the discourse underground and often enough makes it even more attractive. The only way for censorship to work is to take it to at least the same extremes as China and have a system of delation in place to denounce people guilty of forbidden speech.

I, for one, am not ready to sacrifice my freedom like this for an hypothetical increase in security.

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