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> I'm having trouble understanding why people would say mathematical functions are bad. That's such a naïve way of putting it. People don't care about the mat
by notRobot 7y ago
> I'm having trouble understanding why people would say mathematical functions are bad.
That's such a naïve way of putting it. People don't care about the mathematics behind it. They think it's "bad" because they think it enables terrorism and the spread of child sexual abuse imagery or whatever politicians have led them to believe.
- NateEag 7y agoLet's be clear - encryption can absolutely enable those things. That is not all it does, but pretending it does not is stupid.
- lostcolony 7y agoThe internet enables all of those things too. Before that, telephones and fax machines did. Hospitals enable the spread of disease by clustering all the sick together with a constant flow of healthy people (visitors, doctors, etc). They also enable the development of superbugs. What's your point? You're confusing incidental usage with enablement. The lack of these good things doesn't prevent the occurrence of the evils listed, and to make a conversation one sided for how much it exacerbates the evil without instead focusing on the good and the reason they exist is incredibly disingenuous (which is the clearly the intent of most of the people on a soapbox about the evils)
- gjs278 7y agothe point is that you can track phone calls and fax