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Re:Model Spec by w4 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:25PM (#40301383)
> How do you defend against that? I'm not sure you do... A tool is a tool. I wouldn't want my CAD software saying, "I think you're trying to CAD a pipe bomb so I'm going to shut down now."

The core of the issue is that there are many people, including regulators, who wish that software did exactly that.

Re:Model Spec by Waterluvian on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:36PM (#40301483)
Yeah. And isn't that just... fascism? After you get past the stuff we pretty much all agree is evil, it very quickly enters into a subjective space where what's actually happening is that one group is deciding what's acceptable for all groups.
Re:Model Spec by w4 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @03:19PM (#40301873)
It certainly would not be a free society. Though as with all things human, all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again:

"Charles II had re-turned to the English throne in 1660 and was appalled at the state of printing in his realm. Seditious, irreligious, pernicious, and scandalous books and pamphlets flooded the streets of London (among them the works of Milton and Hobbes)...[He] required that all intended publications be registered with the government-approved Stationers’ Company, thus giving the king his “royal prerogative”—and by extension, giving the Stationers the ultimate say in what got printed and what did not.

...it is not surprising to learn that the 1662 Act only met with partial success. One gets the sense that London in the late seventeenth century was a place where definitions of morality were highly subjective and authority was exercised in extremely uneven fashion."

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/17219056/677787....

Re:Model Spec by CooCooCaCha on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @03:18PM (#40301867)
Fascism is ultranationalistism. It’s believing your culture, country, and people are fundamentally superior to others and therefore you are justified in spreading it against people’s will.

“Blood and soil” and all that.

Re:Model Spec by Waterluvian on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @03:26PM (#40301945)
I guess this gets into semantic pedantics. Believing one’s set of sensibilities is superior to all others and all that. But point taken.
Re:Model Spec by CooCooCaCha on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:27PM (#40310556)
No it's not pedantics, you just used a word totally wrong. CAD software preventing you from making a bomb is not fascism at all.
Re:Model Spec by int_19h on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:50PM (#40304189)
Strictly speaking, fascism is ultra-etatism - "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State", to quote Mussolini himself. It does not actually require an ethnic or racial component, although that is incredibly common in practice simply because those provide a readily adoptable basis for it all that strongly resonates with people with relatively simple and straightforward propaganda.