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> but we still had an issue with loads of them prompting users into suicide, violence, or misleading them into preparing noxious mixtures of cleaning supplies,
by rsynnott 1y ago
> but we still had an issue with loads of them prompting users into suicide, violence, or misleading them into preparing noxious mixtures of cleaning supplies, then we could have a discussion about exactly what extreme packaging requirements ought to be in place for distribution to be considered responsible.
Or, I mean, just banning sale on the basis that they're unsafe devices and unfit for purpose. Like, you can't sell, say, a gas boiler that is known to, due to a design flaw, leak CO into the room; sticking a "this will probably kill you" warning on it is not going to be sufficient.
- idle_zealot 1y agoIn that extreme case the "packaging requirements" would be labeling the thing not as a boiler, but as dangerous explosive scrap.
- rsynnott 1y agoI suspect in many places you couldn’t sell what would essentially be a device for poisoning people to consumers _at all_.