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Law enforcement agencies use contractors and buy software all the time... Are you saying that's not a valid market to target? Or do you have ideological objec

by olefoo 15y ago

Law enforcement agencies use contractors and buy software all the time... Are you saying that's not a valid market to target? Or do you have ideological objections to selling work and products for the purposes of enforcing laws you personally disagree with? I personally (and I hope most of the people on this site) would take issue with building and selling products that had no legitimate use other than torture. But I have no problem selling software that could be used to gather information and profile suspected drug dealers or others breaking the established law of the land; even if I disagree with drug prohibition as a policy.

omouse 15y ago
The ideology that you subscribe to is capitalism which says that markets and profits rule. Your ideology is in line with law enforcements. My objections are of course ideologically because I'm opposed to the ideology of capitalism. You cannot even help them gather information and profile suspected drug dealers because that technology and that infrastructure will be abused and will be turned on everyone else. It already has been. I disagree with drug prohibition but I'm more in disagreement with the future potential abuses of the products created for this purpose.