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I up voted your comment, however: Drug dealers, Pedophiles and terrorist all use email, cell phones, public roads and snail-mail to organize, and conduct, thei
by d0ne 15y ago
I up voted your comment, however:
Drug dealers, Pedophiles and terrorist all use email, cell phones, public roads and snail-mail to organize, and conduct, their illegal activities. Is it a realistic reaction to consider shutting each of these down every time there is a new conviction?
- tedunangst 15y agoThey're (hopefully) only talking about shutting things down for a short time. And yes, public roads are shut down quite frequently, sometimes as part of crime fighting efforts. Snail-mail is completely shut off every Sunday even!
- d0ne 15y agoIt's not the fact that infrastructure gets shut down it's the reason and scope. No Snail-mail on Sunday is unrelated to people using it for illegal purposes. Public roads being shut down, even for crime fighting efforts, is not the same as 'shutting down' Facebook or Twitter for your citizens. The proper analogy would be 'Someone was hit by a drunk driver and we believe more drunk drivers will illegally use the road so no one is allowed to drive on any roads for any reason.'
- tedunangst 15y agoThe point I was poorly making was that the powers that be will likely weigh the costs and benefits of shutting various things off, and the perceived cost (negative impact to innocent parties) for disabling twitter is probably so low it barely registers.