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Even knowing it's likely to be used for buying and selling drugs, child porn, and assassinations? I personally believe that, even given those potential ramific
by hlieberman 11y ago
Even knowing it's likely to be used for buying and selling drugs, child porn, and assassinations?
I personally believe that, even given those potential ramifications, the benefits outweigh the costs -- but my personal balance of those is not everyone's.
- GauntletWizard 11y agoYes, because it will also be used by marginalized groups to buy groceries, by sex workers who would otherwise be stuck paying huge commissions to pimps, to help hide who is buying anti-goverment printings. Every tool can be used for evil - Your drill is just as capable of drilling through someone's skull as wood.
- XorNot 11y agoThis is garbage and you know it. You're choosing to be deliberately blind to an accurate assessment of the consequences. If we took the article at its word, you would be put to death. Proposals for codes of ethics are about this exact issue - you don't get to build something that provides capability, then put up your hands and say you "didn't know what it was for" when it's used for something bad.
- GauntletWizard 11y agoThere is a major distinction between enforcing anti-fraud in advertising capabilities of your construction, and ensuring your construction is not used by anyone for malicious purposes. To claim otherwise is fraudulent.