• Vendetta9076
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    7 months ago

    By this logic DARPA should be put on trial for creating TOR

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      7 months ago

      By this logic every locksmith should be put on trial for making locks, every manufacturer of vaults and safes, every lumber company for making wood used in fences, every costume designer for making halloween masks, every post office for renting PO boxes… etc.

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      7 months ago

      what about computers and the internet? those were created and used for bad too. also gps and weather satellites.

      fun fact: the first digital computer was invented for the explicit purpose of calculating artillery firing tables for the army during the war. what it actually ended up getting used for on its first program, was studying global thermonuclear war.