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I don't know why HN people downvote comments like yours. It seems you raise valid questions on your post. Anyway, I think Malekpour should not have worked on t
by gm 15y ago
I don't know why HN people downvote comments like yours. It seems you raise valid questions on your post.
Anyway, I think Malekpour should not have worked on those things, even for moral reasons. You cannot reason with a snake. For the same reason I do not write stuff about Mexican drug cartels. I have family there, and I want them to remain alive (and in one piece), and I would like to remain able to visit without looking over my shoulder and endangering my family. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Google for "mexican blogger deaths".
"Pick your fights" really applies to dealing with criminals and governments such as Iran's.
- Karunamon 15y ago>I don't know why HN people downvote comments like yours. Because it's patently false!! He did not create porn sites, he created a piece of software which was later used by porn sites. Huge difference.
- gm 15y agoBut who is making the accusations? The person who got the downvote or someone else?
- Karunamon 15y agoLook at the post. >Malekpour created porn websites. Completely and totally false.
- artmageddon 15y agoThe government is accusing him of having worked on porn sites, but all he did was write generic uploader code and make it available for any other site to use. It just so happens that the porn site used his code, but the author wasn't aware of it. It would be akin to a kitchen knife manufacturer being charged for murder because someone was used their knives in a stabbing.
- tathagatadg 15y agoJustifies the need for technology education for people making the laws and giving ruling decisions that effect the lives of people. If the guy who made the cms for the site is given a death sentence then why not the people who built the web server and thus all the way up the stack ... Then again its a "dick-tatorship" ...