<i>If political dissent is correlated to violence, why shouldn&#x27;t it be a parameter in the threat model?</i><p>Because we know this will be implemented in a partisan way. &quot;Dissent&quot; implies that there is a <i>single</i> politics from which everything different must be considered suspect. Simply using the word implies totalitarianism.<p>You can see this in the US where the white people talking about the violent overthrow of the government somehow aren&#x27;t considered terrorists and are relatively unmolested even if they actually occupy Federal land and buildings, but a nonwhite kid holding a toy gun gets shot in a playground.<p>Edit: just to drive the point home, does the threat model include a database of gun owners? Do we think gun ownership might be correlated with crime? Or is it illegal to investigate that as it is for the CDC?