Re:Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his ...
by erjiang on Friday November 30, 2012 @06:12PM
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Actually, just consider that illegality is defined by other humans, often arbitrarily.
A system that protects the privacy of users who have "American" free speech is simultaneously a system that protects "criminals" who violate blasphemy, royal-insult, obscenity, or any number of other laws in other countries.
Re:Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his ...
by mistercow on Friday November 30, 2012 @05:31PM
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I'm not sure there's any way to formalize it really. It follows pretty much in one step from the axiom "your computer doesn't know if you're scum or not". And if we had the strong AI needed to change that, we'd just be letting a computer invade our privacy and judge us instead of a human or government.
Do you have more information or references on this? It seems very intuitively correct to me, but I was hoping someone much more intelligent than me has actually formalized somehow.