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Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by orasis on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:49AM (#26214320)
Building a tool is an ethical choice. Technology has no inherent right to exist. This is a bad project.
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by dleslie on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:47AM (#26214909)
Technology has no rights; it is a logical abstraction describing the works of humans.

I like to think that humans have an inherint right to engage in creative work that pleases them.

Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by 4eor0 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:54AM (#26214968)
Police sure seem pleased thumping skulls.

Anything we can do to make it easier for them.

Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by dleslie on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:03PM (#26215064)
Maybe your country should worry less about the technology and more about the people using it. You clearly have a personelle problem.
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by 4eor0 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:21PM (#26215248)
Maybe we should police each other more, and technology less?

But who is making the technology?

Circles. Circles everywhere.

Perhaps you should not anthropomorphize technology.

Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by dleslie on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:28PM (#26215301)
I am explicitly _not_ anthropromorphizing technology; I argued it is a logical abstraction with no rights.
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by ClumsyPilot on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:10AM (#26214483)
Anyone who has capacity to harm you, luke governments, alreafy has tools and a fat budget.
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by majkinetor on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:16AM (#26214554)
This is invalid thinking.

Bad actors can make such tool themselves (if they can't, they are not really that good) and have incentive to do that, so non existence will only slow them down. I don't care about analyzing other people for any purpose so I don't. Having this tool readily available lets me analyze myself and people I care about to protect them from bad actors and educate them in the process.

Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by reaperducer on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:30AM (#26214724)
This is invalid thinking.

I'm not familiar with the phrase "invalid thinking." Can you elaborate on how a person's thoughts can be invalid?

Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by spoonjim on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:04PM (#26215084)
It’s a hamfisted attempt to assert the correctness of one’s argument by fiat. It’s the grown-up “are not / am too!”
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by arkitaip on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:37AM (#26214802)
Please keep in mind that some HNers are modeling their behavior after buggy machines and bad code and that this influences their thinking and language.
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by narak on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:00PM (#26215038)
logical coherence and fallacies far pre-date computers and code
Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by majkinetor on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:53AM (#26214962)
You are being overly literal I guess, there is nothing to explain.

Invalid line of thought sounds good ?

Try DDG next time.

Re:Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites by Ensorceled on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:10PM (#26215149)
The sentence was unnecessary to both your point and any argument in general. Why did you include it? Why are you defending it's inclusion? Why are you now saying "google it"?