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> We require licenses for operating machinery like cars, and I truly, honestly, and without hyperbole think it's time we do the same for information technology.
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
> We require licenses for operating machinery like cars, and I truly, honestly, and without hyperbole think it's time we do the same for information technology.
That's a wildly more anti-freedom stance than anything even the big social media companies have done. At least they are just private companies exercising their right to control what goes on on their own platform, you're actually advocating for the modern equivalent of requiring all typewriters to be registered.
- russellbeattie 6y agoIsn't that the slippery slope argument? No one tells you where you can drive once you get your driver's license, we just don't allow incompetent people behind the wheel. No one at the DMV checks to see which party you belong to before giving you a license. Same thing for an "infotech license". Once someone has demonstrated basic critical thinking, and an understanding of the law, they can say whatever they want to.