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Is it really the tool that's unethical or the argument here just about depriving governments they don't like tools in general?

"Twenty shareholders from Ford demand they stop selling cars to local law enforcement."



I completely agree -- wouldn't you rather help law enforcement and our military protect our well-being?


Be a true patriot; set all passwords to ‘password’.



"Too many secrets". Setec Astronomy.


They don't protect your wellbeing, they protect the entrenched interests of the hyper-capitalist corporate class.


> Is it really the tool that's unethical

Amazon runs the tool on AWS servers they control, so they can (and should) be responsible for having policies that forbid its unethical use.

Here is AWS's Acceptable Use Policy: https://aws.amazon.com/aup/

I don't see anything there about ethics.


I don't know about this argument though. If Amazon bans a book based on their ethics, people freak out about censorship and how one company has so much power and shouldn't be doing that. If their AUP stated what they deemed ethical, how many potential startups or corporations wouldn't be able to start? Take a "simple" example: A business that counsels families on abortion. Is that ethical? Who gets to decide that? I think this is one of those cases where we have to be very careful what we are asking for.


> Is arresting criminals based on photographic evidence "unethical" now?

IMO creating a police state is unethical - the proliferation of cheap surveillance technology helps do that.


> unethical use

Is arresting criminals based on photographic evidence "unethical" now?




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