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>You can't fault the good idea Is it really such a good idea if it took no time at all for it to start being abused in a manner that is opposite of the public

• sofixa 5y ago
  > Is it really such a good idea if it took no time at all for it to start being abused in a manner that is opposite of the public interest? You can make that exact same argument for literally everything. Drunk drivers are against the public interest. So are child porn distributors, tax evaders, unfettered capitalists and a bunch of other things, so should we just ban cars, the internet and just about everything? You can ruin pretty much everything with the shittiest possible implementation, that doesn't invalidate the base logic behind the thing.
  • throwaway0a5e 5y ago
    >You can make that exact same argument for literally everything. Drunk drivers are against the public interest. So are child porn distributors, tax evaders, unfettered capitalists and a bunch of other things, so should we just ban cars, the internet and just about everything? Nobody cares when unjust enforcement practices are used against really bad criminals or are used against really small segments of the population. People going 70 on a road designed for 70 and signed at 55 is a broad cross section of the population. Slap draconian enforcement on top and people aren't just gonna bend over and take it.