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It's highly likely the FBI reached out to many of these organizations to do some initial contact and provide them some information regarding the current threat outlook. The worry is always copycats.

This strikes me as an overzealous internal response by the content team who otherwise doesn't know what to do with any of this. Since they're publicly traded all of this information is required to be in SEC reports anyways.

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To be fair "doing something, anything, mostly stupid" is well established american standard procedure when something happens. Something "has" to be done - so something gets done.

Geez, next you're going to tell me we're not made quantifiably safer by removing our shoes at airport security (unless we paid money to not have to).

Anybody motivated enough to murder someone in this fashion would probably know or learn about the internet archive.

criminals are generally really dumb

Catching a criminal is usually a much bigger story than not catching a criminal. And criminals that get caught are tautologically "dumb enough to get caught."

We're biased to believe that criminals are dumb because we only catch the dumb ones.

The opposite of survivorship bias?

I would say it's an example of sampling or selection bias

A lot of white collar criminals seem pretty smart. They get away with commiting their crimes in public for decades and society rewards them for it.

It's easy to commit a crime it's hard to get away with it - mostly.

Given limited attention spans, removing prominent publicly available information (i.e. with other publicly accessible information still being available) would help reduce the chances of an incident slightly. This is the reason why all those private jet trackers of those prominent individuals were removed from both Twitter and then later Meta too, despite the information still being available publicly in aviation filings.

There's a shocking amount of #EatTheRich crowd totally happy with the assassination as supposedly justified vigilante justice.

Divide and conquer. The weaponized ideological mob is quite the useful herd to wield.

Not what I’m reading. People on my timeline are asking why we’re forced to pay into a feudal system in which health coverage is not guaranteed leaving them with hospital bills in the tens of thousands of dollars for minor procedures after their claim was arbitrarily denied. Others are asking how in the wealthiest nation on earth 1 million people go bankrupt from medical bills when guys like this CEO are making $56 million a year

Or maybe vigilante justice isn't people's first choice, but justice is justice to them.

Herds are notoriously hard to wield. It's a rather foolish mission.

Anyways I see all these as "signals of despair." It shouldn't be that shocking it's just the particular form it is taking this news cycle.

You don't need precision with a herd. You need to send them in a general direction to "trample" and for just a few of the more skilled-competent ones to feel emboldened and righteous in their vigilante justice - not being competent enough to understand the vast complexities and nuances of every situation.

Hmm maybe those CEOs should look into why so many Americans who rarely agree on much hate then so much.

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