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> Your nifty platform or weekend project could easily become the vehicle for someone else's crimes. We might as well all pack up and go home then. God forbid s
by hanoz 7y ago
> Your nifty platform or weekend project could easily become the vehicle for someone else's crimes.
We might as well all pack up and go home then. God forbid some group coordinates an atrocity using the comments section of our blog, for want of proper risk analysis.
Best leave it all to the oligarchs. They know what they're doing. They'll look after us.
- GuiA 7y agoThe comment promotes awareness of the problem. Your interpretation does not stand up to that.
- atoav 7y agoIf you see packing up and leaving it to the oligarchs as the only workable solution to adress the valid point the parent raised, this says more about you than the argument at hand. The thing with weekend projects is: they tend to lie around unused and unchecked. If you are aware of this, people can mitigate it by adding propper monitoring etc.
- lazyjones 7y ago> If you are aware of this, people can mitigate it by adding propper monitoring etc. And what is an acceptable, reasonable solution? Even FB with their near-infinite resources gets in trouble all the time for illegal content and they still spread all kinds of it. Is the only possible solution to be a big corporation?
- travisporter 7y agoJust considering this possibility and asking this question a huge first step. Ethics in CS is important just like any other field. I think just taking a class to be aware of it helps a lot.
- pstuart 7y agoFB doesn't care about illegal content. They may say they do, but they don't as long as they're making money -- that is all they care about.
- jsilence 7y agoWhat would be your opinion in building a nifty side project platform upon keybase.io or other services that provide authenticity verification to a certain degree?