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Terrorist attacks and perverts are every government's excuse to crack down on freedom. Refusing to comply with an authoritarian government like India's is a plus in my book.


Your plus is someone else's minus.

Of course, if you or your family are not the victim of a terror attack, you may not care if others are impacted by it.

After 9/11, USA did the biggest crackdown on terror, including domestic security overhaul such as stringent security checks in airports, more pervasive surveillance, etc.

Microsoft has recently given FBI recovery keys for Bitlocker to unlock a suspect's laptops: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-o...

And this was for fraud investigation, not even a terror investigation case.

Every nation responds to repeated terror attacks in a similar way. Increased surveillance, increased scrutiny, increased vigilance, retaliatory strikes.

What do you expect? Let terror attacks happen, try not to prevent them, try not to retaliate at terrorist networks and nests?

You live in a cosy idealistic world, if you think that terrorism can be handled by ignoring it or its mechanisms of communication.


"Every nation takes advantage of the opportunities that are terrorist attacks in a similar way"

If you think these crackdowns are for your own good, then it is you that lives in an idealized world.


Please stop defending terror supporter companies, with such illogical statements.

You have no clue what idealism means.

An ideal world is one where no terror attacks happen.

Proton has been actively campaigning against police and government in a terror prone region. Proton is openly encouraging terrorists to evade scrutiny.

If you support terrorism under any pretext, then we are done here.


you're using a false dichotomy to hold the conversation hostage. it's possible to want to stop terrorism without handing a blank check to an authoritarian state.




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