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Re:Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'natio... by amcoastal on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:09PM (#25190399)
You don't shut down all printers but do you think a company that would let Myanmar print thousands of pamphlets calling for genocide should suffer no consequences or at the very least critcism?
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Re:Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'natio... by dane-pgp on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:11PM (#25194872)
What if the pamphlets had been printed on HP printers connected to home PCs? Does HP have a moral duty to install surveillance software in all their printers to prevent genocide?

More generally, does every company that sells a dual-use product/service have a duty to interrogate the motives of the buyer and apply editorial control over all uses of that product/service that they could conceivably have visibility of?

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