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> There is nothing "hostile" about preventing individuals from breaking the law.

1) It prevents nothing. It is about post-facto detection.

2) It is self-evidently hostile to the law-breaker.

3) Whether or not it is moral to break the law is the relevant question, and that depends on the law. The "original purpose" of this tech hardly matters. Ask the authors of Soviet-era samizdat.




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