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> we as a society might want to censor Before the internet, all of that stuff could be (and was) published using traditional printing presses and distributed l
by commandlinefan 5y ago
> we as a society might want to censor
Before the internet, all of that stuff could be (and was) published using traditional printing presses and distributed like everything else that was printed. We dealt with the outliers then the same way we ought to deal with them now: find and prosecute (or sue, in the case of libel) the people that were responsible for publishing them, not try to outlaw the printing press itself for not having a "no bad stuff" backdoor.
Because, really, if somebody comes up with a truly uncensorable distribution platform, the point of whether or not it can be used to distribute "bad stuff" will become moot: it will be uncensorable by definition, and we'll have to go back to the "old way" of handling the edge cases.