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>So politicians and intelligence services calling for encryption want, institutionally, to keep people safe.

Why are they knowingly allowing people who fought for ISIS to return to Europe?

It's kind of a tricky legal situation. If they're European citizens, can you really stop them from coming back from Syria? What if they claim they didn't do anything illegal there?

People don't lose their rights just because they travel to the Middle East...

Well, the UK government are trying to cancel people's citizenship if they go to Syria to fight for IS. But you're right, it's questionable, and it might be a legal hassle to do anything about this.

Because stripping a person's right to citizenship is monstrous and shouldn't be done?

Toss them in jail when they get home, but they still get to come back.

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