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by FartyMcFarter 2928 days ago
> Is it really the tool that's unethical

Amazon runs the tool on AWS servers they control, so they can (and should) be responsible for having policies that forbid its unethical use.

Here is AWS's Acceptable Use Policy: https://aws.amazon.com/aup/

I don't see anything there about ethics.
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somethingwitty1 2928 days ago
I don't know about this argument though. If Amazon bans a book based on their ethics, people freak out about censorship and how one company has so much power and shouldn't be doing that. If their AUP stated what they deemed ethical, how many potential startups or corporations wouldn't be able to start? Take a "simple" example: A business that counsels families on abortion. Is that ethical? Who gets to decide that? I think this is one of those cases where we have to be very careful what we are asking for.
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FartyMcFarter 2928 days ago
> Is arresting criminals based on photographic evidence "unethical" now?

IMO creating a police state is unethical - the proliferation of cheap surveillance technology helps do that.

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sadris 2928 days ago
> unethical use

Is arresting criminals based on photographic evidence "unethical" now?

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