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Let's perform a thought experiment. Imagine yourself a little print shop. Now dream up a movable-type printing press and bolt it down in the workroom. Give y
by logfromblammo 10y ago
Let's perform a thought experiment.
Imagine yourself a little print shop. Now dream up a movable-type printing press and bolt it down in the workroom. Give yourself a few trays of letters, and some ink and paper. Give it some late-1780s appropriate decor.
Now imagine that Mr. Legis Socaro barges into your print shop one fine day and demands that you install a device on your press that prevents you from printing the word "aſshole" with it.
How much does that device cost, in relation to the cost of your press? Let's bear in mind that Mr. Socaro has not provided you with any such device to install, the plans to build one, nor even any expectation that any suitable device has been invented yet.
Might as well cite the article as the "Computer Trafficking Prevention Act".
- OliverJones 10y agoAnd, don't forget that the first book printed was the Bible. Of the next ten thousand, many were smut. Civilization survived.