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mcmcmctoday at 7:18 PM1 replyview on HN

If a billboard company accepted an ad that included a threat on the president’s life or recruitment info for a known terror organization, are they complicit in the crime? Water is a basic utility so I don’t think that’s a fair comparison

This is more like a firearms dealer selling a gun to someone after they put their intended usage as “robbing banks” in the ATF form


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niccetoday at 7:51 PM

> If a billboard company accepted an ad that included a threat on the president’s life or recruitment info for a known terror organization, are they complicit in the crime? Water is a basic utility so I don’t think that’s a fair comparison

Yet Meta and Twitter are doing fine, while this has happened.

Water was kinda intentional extreme end. Is there a line? Where is the line? Giving food for someone before they make a murder can give you much bigger jailtime than not giving it, and then just ignoring the knowledge that they are going to make a murder. It is not what you do but the act itself.