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Ok, like selling gasoline to the getaway car driver?

• forrestthewoods 2y ago
  > and you knew about the illegal behavior Your analogy is terrible and doesn’t make sense. If you provide a service that is used for illegal behavior AND you know it’s being used that way AND you explicitly market your services to users behaving illegally AND the majority of your product is used for illegal deeds THEN you’re gonna have a bad time. If one out of ten thousand people use your product for illegal deeds you’re fine. If it’s 9 out of 10 you probably aren’t.
  • coliveira 2y ago
    > If one out of ten thousand people use your product for illegal deeds you’re fine. This logic clearly makes the prison of someone like the owner of Telegram difficult to justify, since 99.999% of messages in telegram are completely legal.
    • forrestthewoods 2y ago
      If 10,000 people out of 10 million are doing illegal things and you know about it or you are going out of your way to turn a blind eye then you’re gonna have a bad time. This really isn’t that complicated.
      • coliveira 2y ago
        But how would you know about this illegal activity, if the product can be used by anyone? Only if you were eavesdropping on your users...
        • Jensson 2y ago
          The government tells you.
        • xorcist 2y ago
          Because in this case, you are. Keep in mind that as soon as you store user accounts you keep user data, which is perhaps a trivial form of eavesdropping, but clearly something law enforcement takes an interest in.
• jrflowers 2y ago
  Possibly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)
• pavlov 2y ago
  Working as a car driver isn’t illegal. Working as a getaway car driver is. You’re making the opposite point of what you intended.