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by varun_ch 17 hours ago
tech companies are responsible for the products they ship, aren’t they? a company shouldn’t release something that could only be used for Bad Things
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So you want to ban guns? Good and bad quickly become subjective, depending on how you view their use in different scenarios.
It could be used for "good things" too, as you could see in their promo post.

If I make a text editor, am I now responsible if someone uses it to write Mein Kampf? Back then people didn't complain that a notepad doesn't censor user input, but if we continue with your logic, we'll be surveiled constantly, I don't want that dystopian future to become reality.