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Re:Tech startups selling to police by borski on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:31PM (#38156880)
You’re right; and most bakeries will sell their bread to anyone that can pay for it.
Re:Tech startups selling to police by pfisherman on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:37PM (#38156936)
This is not a very good analogy. Bread is not a dual use technology like surveillance tech.

There are plenty of classes of goods that are heavily regulated. For example, explosives.

Re:Tech startups selling to police by borski on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:47PM (#38157020)
Sure, and nearly every government can buy explosives.
Re:Tech startups selling to police by giraffe_lady on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:55PM (#38157526)
Can't speak for anyone else but I certainly don't consider bombsmonger an honorable profession.
Re:Tech startups selling to police by psunavy03 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:33PM (#38157770)
And I suppose the Ukrainians are supposed to just defend themselves with sticks?
Re:Tech startups selling to police by giraffe_lady on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:35PM (#38157778)
Why not? It's what we expect of palestinians isn't it?
Re:Tech startups selling to police by psunavy03 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:40PM (#38157804)
Good Lord, this is a morally bankrupt take on so many levels.
Re:Tech startups selling to police by borski on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:06PM (#38157960)
This is a garbage take. I’d strongly reconsider your stance on what is or isn’t simple about the Israel/Gaza conflict.

For one, it turns out that Hamas had a lot more than sticks on 10/7.

The only simple thing about this conflict is that nothing about it is simple. Simplistic takes like this are meaningless trash, and I really genuinely mean that with no ill intent.

Re:Tech startups selling to police by giraffe_lady on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:02AM (#38162027)
It seems like pretty simply a case of genocide, but I'm not a genocide expert.

This guy is though. https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide

One day you'll pretend to have seen it as clearly as I do now. No one is going to want to hear about how you thought the genocide was complicated. Remember this conversation when you lie to your grandchildren about it.

Re:Tech startups selling to police by borski on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:35AM (#38162367)
I certainly hope, for all our sakes, that Hamas and Iran do not become the largest governing powers in that region long-term.

If they do, I may not have grandchildren to “lie to,” because I, a Jew, will be dead.

But that’s cool, you just let Hamas do its thing, since that’s definitely the simplest answer to this simple problem.

Have a nice life.

Re:Tech startups selling to police by borski on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:01PM (#38157566)
Nobody said anything about honor. I was simply stating the fact that cherry-picking surveillance tech as suddenly “not to be sold to governments” is as equally absurd as suggesting that weapons manufacturers should not sell any weapons to any government.

Of course they will.

Re:Tech startups selling to police by giraffe_lady on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:34PM (#38157777)
It's not cherry picking to point out that some technologies are more like arms than they are like ads, and that we should treat the creators as we do arms dealers. However that happens to be.
Re:Tech startups selling to police by borski on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:13PM (#38158000)
Okay. The article is about SV selling to America’s police.

America’s police has no problem acquiring arms.

I’d argue that, in effect, they’re already treated as arms dealers, who sell to police all the time.