Another fun one: Signal is the No. 1 downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why? | TechCrunch, from March 2 2025

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41483581

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/1j38sgw/signal_is_t...

Seems a modern problem is the significant watering down of what "terrorist" means. If blocking ads has become three measure of a terrorist:

If everyone's a terrorist... No one is.

The word no longer has any meaning. Eventually there will be two labels to apply to everyone: "corporate sheep" and "terrorist".

In which case I will always strive towards terrorist.

WTF is going on with France?

But what are then the people making the ads? In my head they are litterers, as they fill the public space with unwanted rubbish. But if I'm a terrorist, then these guys have to be on a whole other level. I sometimes think maybe 'rapists' is a suitable word, since they sure as fuck don't care about my consent when they push their rubbish on me. But in the worldview of the people who think I'm a terrorist for using uBlock, things are probably just all back to front.

Up is down, left is right.

If someone, as a purely theoretical example, feels as if they fall under various 'modern' classifications of terrorist, then it could break down certain walls of reasoning preventing them from participating in activities that would fall under the 'historic' classification of terrorist.

What I'm saying is: Any government that's over-using the term is (potentially) actively participating in the radicalisation of a portion of their constituency.

And that is a dead-fucking-wrong approach; 180 degrees away from the correct heading. Gross negligence.