[tchaffee]

Think automated spam and the damage it does. The artificial constraints you've imagined aren't even realistic.

[dementiapatent]

Do you also think that Carl Benz should have kept the first combustion vehicle secret from the public, since it could be used to automate damage upon pedestrians?

Ban and criminalize the unethical application, not the tool.

[tchaffee]

> Do you also think that Carl Benz should have kept the first combustion vehicle secret from the public... ?

No.

> Ban and criminalize the unethical application, not the tool.

No one banned the tool. You've created a strawman argument.