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A lot of the law is unjust. Anonymous money solve this problem.
by monort 11y ago
A lot of the law is unjust. Anonymous money solve this problem.
- tptacek 11y agoThis argument boils down to "a lot of the law is unjust, so a bunch of programmers will overrule the law en masse". That's great if you're an an-cap but doesn't so much address the question upthread.
- SilasX 11y agoNot just an-caps; that's also the basic justification given to the whole "don't talk to police" thing and to the Fifth Amendment whenever someone says, "If you're innocent, you can just tell the truth, so obviously silence should count as evidence of guilt." [1] Which is to say, the specter of "you're violating a bunch of laws all the time anyway, so better to make it harder in general to prosecute stuff". Recall the Bennett Haselton (sp?) fracas: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/07/1439220/seeking-fifth-amendment-defenders http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/07/1439220/seeking-fifth... [1] Of course, it always will, irrespective of a judge's sheepish instructions.
- sarciszewski 11y agoIt's easier to influence the direction of an international cabal of open source software developers than it is to get a sane result from international politics.
- tptacek 11y agoIf you believe that it's OK for programmers to override laws, you don't get to complain about Uber anymore.
- sarciszewski 11y ago> If (false statement), (non sequitur about a service I don't use or complain about) Great contribution there, Tom.
- iamsohungry 11y agoThat's stupid. I think it's great that Uber is undercutting the absolutely shitty medallion system. But that doesn't mean I'm okay with them underpaying their workers, for example.
- monort 11y agoIt's basically the idea from cypherpunk's manifesto - write a code, that will fix a problem, don't write a law.