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Fake bomb threats, regardless of how you feel about them, are not violence unless they are accompanied by a demand or seek to compel in some way.

TBH as long as there are no real bombs and no one is physically harmed or coerced, I fully support this sort of nonviolent disruption of the surveillance apparatus.

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Would you please stop posting trollish comments to HN? It just leads to boring flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I did not intend to troll anyone; my comment was sincere.

I am well aware of the rules and refuse, now as ever, to participate in pointless flaming on HN. I don’t think anyone wants that.

I will err on the side of not commenting in the future if I am unable to estimate people’s potential upset responses. (I hope you can understand the potential error bars around such an undertaking; one person’s sincere opinion is another person’s “trollish”.)

(Note that I think moderating such on-topic discussion harms the overall range of thought on HN, but it’s your site and your rules and I endeavor to obey them. I am sorry for taking up your time.)

I appreciate the comment and believe you about your intent. I use the word "trollish" in a context like this because the effects are unfortunately much the same even if you didn't intend them, and thus weren't strictly trolling.

Why are you trying to diminish how serious this is?

Bomb threats are terrorism.

> I fully support this sort of nonviolent disruption of the surveillance apparatus

The way you think actively harms people.

Under law or according to your opinion?

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