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A computer keyboard allows a person to type the contents of a pro-democracy speech even if you're in China and the government wouldn't want you to be able to, a
by rngname22 4y ago
A computer keyboard allows a person to type the contents of a pro-democracy speech even if you're in China and the government wouldn't want you to be able to, a telephone would have allowed the famously gay, famously chemically castrated Alan Turing to make a phone call to make proclamations of love to another man he loved despite the British government frowning upon such a thing, a ship would take the passengers of a ship of fleeing Jews to leave Europe and go elsewhere prior to the Holocaust even if Hitler would have liked to see them all in Auschwitz.
When we suddenly decide to give our tools the power to refuse us, based on some whim of those with power in society, we'd best be prepared for when it turns out we signed off on some great evils.