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I think a closer parallel would be a car company that advertises a sports car as excellent for racing. While there are legal racetracks, the manufacturer could
by didgeoridoo 7y ago
I think a closer parallel would be a car company that advertises a sports car as excellent for racing. While there are legal racetracks, the manufacturer could be accused of promoting dangerous and illegal street racing as a way to push their product.
Do we want to effectively ban advertising a product as fit for a legal purpose, if that purpose has some functional overlap with illegal ones? It’s a reasonable question. How such a law would be implemented and executed, however, worries me greatly.
- pwinnski 7y agoI guess it's good that this isn't a law then, right? It's a court case, and it is up to attorneys for each side to make their respective cases.
- didgeoridoo 7y agoIt’s ultimately up to us as a society whether we want these restrictions codified into law or not. Over-reliance on a patchwork of precedents and prosecutorial discretion is a path to an unpredictable and unjust legal system.