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Re:Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us by coffeemug on Sunday December 13, 2015 @07:27PM (#10728653)
> I'm also not buying that it's a slippery slope and banning, say, cross compiling profiles on customers from different, unrelated platforms would "take down the entirety of marketing and advertising as an industry".

It's also not clear that destroying the entirety of marketing and advertising industries is an obviously bad idea if you take the long view on humanity. (It's also not an obviously good idea. It's worth thinking about.)

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Re:Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us by marvy on Sunday December 13, 2015 @10:22PM (#10729255)
How long a view are we talking about? On a time scale of decades, it sounds like a bad idea, and on a time scale of centuries I tend to distrust all forecasts. Care to present any argument in favor?
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