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A Boring Dystopia
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The issue is that if you ever cross them in a meaningful way they can just refer to this “excuse to persecute you” list and pull the trigger.
Same reason Microsoft had a dedicated datacenter recording every phone call made in Palestine.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud
They don’t need this to do that if things go that direction. They can make up whatever they want.
Yeah I mean that's true but I'm saying it's less useful as a list of terrorists. It just becomes a list of everybody.