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by lerpa 3176 days ago
> The idiocy is accepting that researching extreme content is evil. It is not.

The Govt people don't believe that, otherwise they would need to arrest themselves.

They just want to do some terror on the populace to the extent that merely knowing something exists makes you a suspect. That is police state 101, it makes people turn their neighbors in even without much evidence, so they are seen as not involved.