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> facilitating spam is some distance further down on the benefits to harms scale than facilitating Facebook or Google So... Facilitating spam is worse than fac

• chii 8y ago
  Is an arms manufacturer at fault when there's war? China is always going to censor. Google facilitating it or not make no difference. Might as well make the money, and also hope to influence the system from a position of power rather than a position of weakness (i.e, not involved at all)
  • danra 8y ago
    Spam is always going to exist. Might as well facilitate, make money, and try to influence the system from a position of power?
    • tempestn 8y ago
      That's like saying theft will always exist, so you might as well go steal things. Tools like this actively add to the quantity of spam out there, making it worse for everyone.
      • chii 8y ago
        the analogy isn't to do stealing, it's to make lockpicks.