No, your paranoia-outage is the true "national security threat" - a threat to freedom. Stop fanning the flames and calling for more government intervention.
After decades of watching people use these three words, I've come to the conclusion that 'national security threat' is a right-wing dog-whistle for 'we have no actual proof, but we dislike it, so let's ban it'.
They are basically 'won't someone please think of the children?', but with higher stakes.
'national security threat' is a right-wing dog-whistle for 'we have no actual proof, but we dislike it, so let's ban it'.
The abuse of the term "National Security Threat' doesn't mean legitimate threats don't exist. "There are no NSTs" as a left-wing dog whistle would be equally damaging by ignoring legitimate concerns - both approaches lead to the same outcomes, similar to the vast majority of highly popularized left-right wrestling shows.
Hidden, unknown to the public residential proxies are a national security threat, and there's no need to ban them in order to protect from that - just make them public. There would be no problem if I knew the IPs who could act as proxies and block them, that would be a fair game.
it's a general politician dogwhistle, don't underestimate "the left" (especially in countries like the US, where the democrats are really not that left compared to other left parties in e.g. europe; leaving you with a pointless right-wing vs right-wing fight where nobody wins)
Its worse than that. Its "think of the children" but with slightly more truth to the statement than " think of the children". Because it is definitely a national security threatwhile primarily actually being said to |imit freedoms and increase market power abuse possibilities for big tech and/or media.
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No, your paranoia-outage is the true "national security threat" - a threat to freedom. Stop fanning the flames and calling for more government intervention.
After decades of watching people use these three words, I've come to the conclusion that 'national security threat' is a right-wing dog-whistle for 'we have no actual proof, but we dislike it, so let's ban it'.
They are basically 'won't someone please think of the children?', but with higher stakes.
It's neither right nor left, but authoritarian and there are plenty of those around.
The abuse of the term "National Security Threat' doesn't mean legitimate threats don't exist. "There are no NSTs" as a left-wing dog whistle would be equally damaging by ignoring legitimate concerns - both approaches lead to the same outcomes, similar to the vast majority of highly popularized left-right wrestling shows.
Hidden, unknown to the public residential proxies are a national security threat, and there's no need to ban them in order to protect from that - just make them public. There would be no problem if I knew the IPs who could act as proxies and block them, that would be a fair game.
it's a general politician dogwhistle, don't underestimate "the left" (especially in countries like the US, where the democrats are really not that left compared to other left parties in e.g. europe; leaving you with a pointless right-wing vs right-wing fight where nobody wins)
Its worse than that. Its "think of the children" but with slightly more truth to the statement than " think of the children". Because it is definitely a national security threatwhile primarily actually being said to |imit freedoms and increase market power abuse possibilities for big tech and/or media.