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by DSingularity 1782 days ago
Hypotheticals: What if your platform is causing a growth in the crime rate? What if your platform is enabling new forms of crime and potentially on an unprecedented scale? Is it justified then?
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For the first one it depends on how much growth and in what crimes specifically.

For the second one, maybe, but I seriously doubt icloud encryption is going to do that.

Either way, just talking about baselines and percents is a good improvement over just "this would decrease crime". Add in the downsides too and you have yourself a good platform for discussion!