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First we had "drugs", then we had "terrorists", then we had "pedophiles", and now we have "money laundering". All of these things really do exist and really are bad, but their negative impact on society is strategically overstated and the measures taken against them are mostly ineffective against the thing they are purported to combat, yet cause significant amounts of "collateral" damage to the privacy and freedom of all of us.


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