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Re:Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience by euske on Saturday August 25, 2018 @06:25AM (#17840310)
I'm gonna say a modified Bruce Schneier quote: "Ethics is a process, not a product."

Meaning that, what's ethical or unethical is always changing, and nobody can foresee the future, so the only thing we can do at best is to keep questioning it and be wary about it. The same thing goes for freedom and democracy too, I guess.

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Re:Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience by dmead on Saturday August 25, 2018 @07:55AM (#17840493)
The best thing we can do is to have a realistic expectation about what is going to happen if technology 'X' is introduced.

Saying that "oh we just have to be wary" is like an a priori version of "we were just following orders".

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