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armchairhackertoday at 12:51 PM1 replyview on HN

Everything bends to power, by definition. And laws can’t be impartial because they’re not based in hard science: terms like “murder”, “assault”, “theft”, etc. are ambiguous thus up to interpretation (e.g. is a scam theft? If so, what defines a scam? If “lying”, what’s the difference from “misleading”, or if there’s no difference, what defines “misleading”…)

My best idea for a solution is better education, so people don’t make bad laws then badly enforce them.


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gzreadtoday at 4:52 PM

Right problem, wrong solution. You can't build something that doesn't bend to power, by definition. You have to take away the power.

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