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Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? by trumpdong on Saturday June 06, 2026 @09:50AM (#48425148)
Enabling crime is massive. You have to remember that "crime" includes things like "selling abortion pills", "selling LSD", "selling ivermectin" and of course "supporting Palestine Action"
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? by FabHK on Sunday June 07, 2026 @11:42PM (#48441090)
Yes. And while the law sometimes gets things wrong, in general it is good that it tries do distinguish between useful and harmful things, morally right and morally wrong.

And a tool that serves only to subvert the law (at enormous expense) does not strike me as valuable or worth supporting.

NB: I support the outcome of the 1990's crypto war (in the good old days when "crypto" meant cryptography, not crime-token), namely the right to private uncensored unrestricted communication. But a private uncensored unrestricted way of sending around money is a terrible idea, as we can see empirically.

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