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How is this possibly enforceable though? The software is already out there and available. In countries that restrict guns, it's often quite hard to get one ou
by CydeWeys 7y ago
How is this possibly enforceable though? The software is already out there and available. In countries that restrict guns, it's often quite hard to get one outside the legal channels (if there are any), so enforcement is pretty effective. But for something you can just download??
- ashelmire 7y agoNot just download, but write yourself in a short time. And the code could be shared, and I’d guess you can build a decent system to do this in a few hundred lines. It’s a ridiculous proposition to restrict software access, akin to making it illegal to write on paper.
- jeanmichelx 7y agoIt's ridiculously easy to write a DoS tool. Let's make DoSing legal then.
- CydeWeys 7y agoThe two aren't the same thing at all. It's legal to own guns, but illegal to shoot someone with one. It's legal to write software that opens network connections, but illegal to use said software against a target on the Internet that doesn't want said traffic. Similarly, it's legal to write or download a neural network that is programmed for facial recognition. Same for a basic crawler bot.
- Youcandothis 7y agoLaws are often difficult to enforce, but that is not a reason to not have the laws.
- CydeWeys 7y agoThe point of a law isn't the law in its own right, it's to solve a problem. And an unenforceable law isn't actually solving anything.
- Youcandothis 7y agoThere's a difference in being difficult to enforce and impossible to enforce. Laws like we are discussing here are enforceable enough.