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Terr_today at 6:15 PM0 repliesview on HN

We also need to talk more about the third not-mutually-exclusive option: Legal liability if/when things go wrong.

It's often buried because the people making money dislike it, so much so that they will lobby the government to impose wide bans. Especially if:

* The ban makes somebody else pay most of the costs of protecting "the children" against their design-choices or business-model.

* The ban gives them a blanket pass for almost any exploitative design against adults or other acceptable targets.