[jenandre]

"Exploiting an unknowable amount of users of a service as to hunt them. Using illegally harvested data from botnets, while others get hunted and prosecuted for coding them. This tiered society where the legally immune can profit off acts that get others jailed."

Not that I disagree with this sentiment, but how is this different from the fact the government is "legally immune" from using/possessing weapons and firearms that the average person can't possess or use?

[tomp]

It's more like the government hiring non-government forces that can then legally possess arms that other "non-affiliated" people (i.e. civilians) can't, and being given legal immunity for killing random people, some of which might turn out to be criminals. I.e. Batman, with a bit less moral compass.

[bigiain]

Or even "Batman with a completely normal corporate moral compass – 100% focused on its primary goal – of 'increasing shareholder value'"…

[nilved]

It's not. That's bad too.