You made a broad-brush statement that essentially justified anything in the name of safety. You might want to re-word your statement if you meant otherwise.

It's a stretch for sure.

I think the point is that it's a tradeoff of civil liberties in exchange for safety.

I think it's an interesting discussion and it's not clear to me what the right answer is.

Given the first amendment in the USA, i think once it's cheap enough everyone will be filming everyone all the time. Just look at how many people have ring doorbells.

> For a tech forum the rebuttals are terrible.

Physician, heal thyself!

HN has become much dumber as X became less censured.