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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by fantod on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:55PM (#25144362)
Not every lockdown entails tracking of individuals.
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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by konjin on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:03PM (#25144430)
And 9/11 would have not been stopped by forcing everyone to take their shoes off before getting on the plane.

Yet here we are 20 years later still doing it.

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by Clubber on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:33PM (#25144725)
That was technically done by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. That incident started the shoe thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid

One guy later was the underwear bomber. Thank God that didn't take.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by chrisco255 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:33PM (#25153425)
Yeah, another 9/11 was basically stopped by adding locked compartments and training the pilots in self-defense techniques, some of which are even armed.
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