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I think it is greyer than this. Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover, distasteful as they are, I believe acted in what they would claim is good faith. The issue is
by pempem 3y ago
I think it is greyer than this.
Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover, distasteful as they are, I believe acted in what they would claim is good faith. The issue isn't that someone is a bad actor. It is that they believe they are a good actor and are busy stripping away others' rights in their pursuit.
- JohnFen 3y agoVery nearly everybody -- even bad people -- consider themselves one of the "good guys".
- dfxm12 3y agoMaybe in their minds they thought the end justified the means, but there's no way anyone, even themselves, mistakes those means for good faith.
- pempem 3y agoSure. the question was whether AI will continue to enable mass spying and making the affordability of mass spying a tool humans rely on. They will. It will. We will see that erosion.