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Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by jfengel on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:11PM (#33856065)
Why should they be held responsible for inciting terrorism? They're not injuring anybody.
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Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by Hackbraten on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:24PM (#33856185)
One could argue that they are indeed injuring people, by stochastic terrorism [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_attack#Stochastic_te...

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Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by brazzy on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:30PM (#33856241)
Because it still ends up with people killed.

Free speech absolutism is poison for actual freedom.

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Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by jfengel on Sunday December 04, 2022 @03:38PM (#33857618)
I agree. I think it needs a lot more thought than the OP was giving it, though of course that kind of sarcasm reads poorly on the Internet.
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