I really dislike this framing, because it's shifted the debate into an irrelevant tangent. It doesn't really matter if it's useful or not; it's still illegal.

I really dislike this framing, because it's shifted the debate into an irrelevant tangent. It doesn't really matter if it's useful or not; it's still illegal. Even if 1984 works that doesn't mean it's a society we want to live in.