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Feels a little like getting a license from Parliament to run a printing press to catch people printing scandalous pamphlets, no?
by junofan 3y ago
Feels a little like getting a license from Parliament to run a printing press to catch people printing scandalous pamphlets, no?
- ben_w 3y agoDidn't the printing press lead to the modern idea of copyright, the Reformation, and by extension contributed to the 80 Year's War, and through that Westphalian sovereignty?
- distortionfield 3y agoYes, as well as a serious new test of freedom of speech. What’s your point? Technology always advances society’s laws.
- throwawayneio31 3y agoThere are aplenty of people who don’t believe technology has in any way benefitted humanity, some CS folks themselves even.
- ben_w 3y agoWhich bit are you "yes, and"-ing? The religious conflicts? 80 years war? The invention of copyright (which does still restrict the right to print, it's just enforced with after-the-event prosecution if you print the wrong stuff)? The invention of the modern nation state?