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This isn't like rockets or poison gas. Poison gas is probably the most insulted. Edit: And since you love hyperbole so much: Good engineers will want to work
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 9y ago
This isn't like rockets or poison gas. Poison gas is probably the most insulted.
Edit: And since you love hyperbole so much: Good engineers will want to work on this problem (both sides technically), just as Feynman worked on the atom bomb.
- monocasa 9y agoI mean, it's a US company helping dictatorships block access to stuff like The Human Rights Campaign. Pretty close in my mind.
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- cgh 9y agoNetsweeper is not a US company.
- monocasa 9y agoWhatever, Canadian. My point still stands.
- StudentStuff 9y agoIts likely Canadian, the gov't up there offers massive tax and investment incentives if your small, and for slightly larger companies they still have a great tax situation compared to the US. Plus your products avoid US export controls and appeal to countries that would otherwise be off limits. An interesting article on what Canada offers tech companies: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/business-technology/shredding-some-myths-about-canadas-tech-startup-subsidies/article18921138/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/business-technolo...
- monocasa 9y agoYeah, they're from Ontario.
- torpfactory 9y agoTell that to a homosexual in Saudi who gets sent to prison.
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- __jal 9y agoSure. Because mass censorship tools designed to identify categories of undesirables has to many positive applications. > Good engineers will want to work on this problem So? A lot of "good engineers" are horrible people from an ethical perspective. Just like any other category of humanity.
- xevb3k 9y agoI’d argue that if totally effective limiting discourse, and limiting what it is acceptable to believe/think can be worse. I don’t see that in the extreme case, denying a person of any human interaction for their lifetime is any better than killing them for example.