normal procedures of cult and terrorism prevention (e.g. surveilling their activities, preventing the isolation of potential recruits, and looking for any suspiciously missing person).
Surveilling whose activities?
For example, there is a YouTube video with Slimepriestess, who defends Zizians a bit too much, in my opinion. Should we be surveilling Slimepriestess?
I chose a specific person and an exaggerated example on purpose. Because, in real situation, it will always be a specific person, and unless the behavior is really bad (which means it is already late), any proposed action will seem excessive to some people. And it will feel virtuous to err on the side of letting people do whatever they want.
(And if the police is already looking for Ziz, you don’t need to surveil. If you see Ziz, pick up the phone and call the cops, don’t try anything heroic, or the next story might be about you.)
I think we still haven’t reached a consensus on whether Nonlinear are bad guys. That was a year ago.
So… yeah, we should do something like that, but it is difficult to get the details right.
Core Zizians (and, in general, any group determined to be a cult or terror threat to the community), as the US doesn’t really have an equivalent of, say, the French MIVILUDES to do that job (else US society would be fairly different). Potential recruits are addressed in the next comma.
Surveilling whose activities?
For example, there is a YouTube video with Slimepriestess, who defends Zizians a bit too much, in my opinion. Should we be surveilling Slimepriestess?
I chose a specific person and an exaggerated example on purpose. Because, in real situation, it will always be a specific person, and unless the behavior is really bad (which means it is already late), any proposed action will seem excessive to some people. And it will feel virtuous to err on the side of letting people do whatever they want.
(And if the police is already looking for Ziz, you don’t need to surveil. If you see Ziz, pick up the phone and call the cops, don’t try anything heroic, or the next story might be about you.)
I think we still haven’t reached a consensus on whether Nonlinear are bad guys. That was a year ago.
So… yeah, we should do something like that, but it is difficult to get the details right.
Core Zizians (and, in general, any group determined to be a cult or terror threat to the community), as the US doesn’t really have an equivalent of, say, the French MIVILUDES to do that job (else US society would be fairly different). Potential recruits are addressed in the next comma.