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by imglorp 1312 days ago
Happened to me once at $work.

We built a system with the most humanitarian application imaginable, helping people in need, and it was good. Turns out, it's hard to make money at that and the business people recast things into a new product that could suppress dissent in authoritarian countries, which they sold there. I'm positive it's been used to hurt people.

Ethically, all the people that make generic infra like roads or computers or sdr software are not responsible if someone else does evil with their product.