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Looks like Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tunisia (my home country) and others are not Western enough for Facebook.
Maybe Facebook thinks that the Safety Check wont work for countries waging civil wars.
Today is the first time since 9/11 that I can remember hearing the news of a terrorist attack and not being gripped by panic. I guess the Boston Marathon Bombings, Paris Attacks (Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan both) shootings and other events have kind of led me being in an oddly calm state when I hear news like this now. This is not the way I want to feel. If you would've told me around 8:30 a.m. on September 10th the w…
Today is the first time since 9/11 that I can remember hearing the news of a terrorist attack and not being gripped by panic. I guess the Boston Marathon Bombings, Paris Attacks (Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan both) shootings and other events have kind of led me being in an oddly calm state when I hear news like this now. This is not the way I want to feel. If you would've told me around 8:30 a.m. on September 10th the w…
Edit: I don't claim to have a rich understanding of the issue, but I appreciated the nuanced analysis in this article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...
This is a mess larger than I can comprehend, with scores of innocent dead. The spectrum of political issues this crosses is vast. We're talking nationalism, immigration, religion, extremism, surveillance, privacy, and war to name a few. The nuance required to understand and attack the big picture is almost nowhere to be found. I saw the French PM said something like "we're at war" - I'm not sure who they're at war wi…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11334908 (67 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335167 (79 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335518 (115 comments)
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Comparing terrorist attacks with traffic accidents is quite a display of originality.
Not really. The point is that people are irrationally afraid of incredibly improbable / statistically insignificant events and the result is bad policy decisions / suboptimal use of resources by reactive governments. People should be much more afraid of dying in a car accident than dying at the hands of terrorists, yet few people are urgently pushing the government to enforce stronger safety standards in cars / on ro…
This is a mess larger than I can comprehend, with scores of innocent dead. The spectrum of political issues this crosses is vast. We're talking nationalism, immigration, religion, extremism, surveillance, privacy, and war to name a few. The nuance required to understand and attack the big picture is almost nowhere to be found. I saw the French PM said something like "we're at war" - I'm not sure who they're at war wi…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-blast-idUSKCN0WO0L...
As sad as it is, I think the responses will be: - we need more surveillance rights and money for the secret services - we need more police and higher spending - and possibly bomb some country (Syria is en vogue) What won't be said is: - How come this happens again without anyone having seen it coming? - What does it say about the success of the Western anti-terror foreign policy adopted ~2001?
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That's exactly what more police will do. Make people feel safer, not actually be more safe. It's security theater. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
Belgium recently said that nearly every one of their available officers was running down ISIS / jihad leads, they've essentially stopped investigating other crimes and still don't have the manpower required. They're in desperate need of more well-trained police.