Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl...
by koala_man on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:57PM
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>If you’re a “bad” person, logically your technology should help you be bad.
I think this oversteps the Silicon Valley idea that technology is always inherently beneficial.
It's really not unfair that I can buy gardening gloves and radish seeds on Amazon, while a domestic terrorist has to sneak around and lie to buy a barrel of nitromethane. We should not be using our technology to enable both equally, and then leave it to the individual to decide whether to plant a garden or a bomb.
I think this oversteps the Silicon Valley idea that technology is always inherently beneficial.
It's really not unfair that I can buy gardening gloves and radish seeds on Amazon, while a domestic terrorist has to sneak around and lie to buy a barrel of nitromethane. We should not be using our technology to enable both equally, and then leave it to the individual to decide whether to plant a garden or a bomb.