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EGregyesterday at 9:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Governments can hire a hitman to go after you, if you say something wrong. So can international crime syndicates. Will this have a meaningful effect on chilling your speech?

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/children-recruited-criminals-indu...


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lrvickyesterday at 10:01 PM

Pretty far fetched an Illinois legislator hires a hitman for a FOSS developer.

But to humor you, if they did, the distro would carry right on, so they would be taking a lot of risk with no progress on their objective.

I only sign like 1/3 releases these days so I am replaceable now. Decentralized control and decentralized trust was the whole point of stagex.

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