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Given that the app has features like "delete messages after 30 seconds" and "enter a panic password to delete all your data", a 90% drug-dealer/political-activi

Given that the app has features like "delete messages after 30 seconds" and "enter a panic password to delete all your data", a 90% drug-dealer/political-activist ratio doesn't seem far-fetched to me. If you build an anti-witch-hunt app, most of your clients will be witches.

zionic 6y ago
How do you know even 1% of their users use that function? If Facebook adds that feature tomorrow do billions suddenly become criminals? You assume just because the feature exists the clientele are using it.
salawat 6y ago
One is not caused by the other, and reality never ceases to surprise. Though with the monetization model, I will admit, they surgically targeted their demographic. Besides which, stop marginalizing the 5 civil libertarians you insensitive clod. (The Aphorism goes: Make a country where witch hunts are illegal, then the population will be 5 civil minded libertarians and a million witches). Of course nobody wants to discuss that the 5 civil minded libertarians might have a point, and the unsaid snicker that reverbrates in the ensuing silence is that if you make something easier, you select for it, therefore one should not make undesirable things easier. Therefore the implication is left that the one being persuaded is too dim to realize the consequences of their decision. This goes completely out the window when one takes into account that there may be a legitimate, though unpleasant need to tolerate the existence of something unpleasant due to the greater damage that could result from doing something drastic. Fun and hilarity only continue to escalate from here. The wise would be well advised to simply move on.
- PoignardAzur 6y ago
  I wasn't saying the app should be illegal, mind you. Just pointing out that, empirically speaking, it's probably used by a lot of criminals.
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zionic 6y ago

How do you know even 1% of their users use that function? If Facebook adds that feature tomorrow do billions suddenly become criminals? You assume just because the feature exists the clientele are using it.

salawat 6y ago

One is not caused by the other, and reality never ceases to surprise. Though with the monetization model, I will admit, they surgically targeted their demographic. Besides which, stop marginalizing the 5 civil libertarians you insensitive clod. (The Aphorism goes: Make a country where witch hunts are illegal, then the population will be 5 civil minded libertarians and a million witches). Of course nobody wants to discuss that the 5 civil minded libertarians might have a point, and the unsaid snicker that reverbrates in the ensuing silence is that if you make something easier, you select for it, therefore one should not make undesirable things easier. Therefore the implication is left that the one being persuaded is too dim to realize the consequences of their decision. This goes completely out the window when one takes into account that there may be a legitimate, though unpleasant need to tolerate the existence of something unpleasant due to the greater damage that could result from doing something drastic. Fun and hilarity only continue to escalate from here. The wise would be well advised to simply move on.

PoignardAzur 6y ago
I wasn't saying the app should be illegal, mind you. Just pointing out that, empirically speaking, it's probably used by a lot of criminals.

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