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What are you talking about? Thieves' cant, burner phone, clandestine meetings--these are all things that make crime easier, and none of them are illegal. We b
by buellerbueller 3mo ago
What are you talking about? Thieves' cant, burner phone, clandestine meetings--these are all things that make crime easier, and none of them are illegal. We ban crime, not things that allow crime.
- ShinyLeftPad 3mo agoHow is it complicated? Having to do these things made crime difficult. There's higher barrier to entry and cost to pay. It's more difficult to scale across borders. Not having to do them makes it easier.
- buellerbueller 3mo agoThe internet makes crime easier; should we ban it too? Before cars, you could only steal what you could carry--maybe we should abolish cars too. "Barrier to entry for crime" is not a useful metric, because it encompasses so many things. Or do you want a police state?
- ShinyLeftPad 3mo agoYou forget that internet makes police work easier too and there's processes for shutting down a dark market website for example With e2ee though it's not like that