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Despite was sovern citizens may say, you can not opt-out of police services in the U.S. If you're well known on the Internet, let your local polic department know you may be targeted with swatting. It's worked for people in the past to soften the response. If you haven't already been swatted it's unlikely your profile is such that you'd be tarted.



Secondly, never ever ever ever react or publicize it online.

If the swatters get no reaction they stop doing it because the whole point is to get a reaction.




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