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Creating the tools by which anyone might theoretically spawn abuse is not the same as proactively hosting those engaging in the same.

E.g. one might reasonably disrupt a farmer's market known to be selling beef infected with salmonella without banning cows of the same breed across the world.



Would you shut down the printing company that makes the flyers that tell people where the market is though? Oh, and hand over the presses to a local supermarket to keep printing the flyers but with the convert replacement of the address of the supermarket as the place to source your meat.


Creating a faulty lock mechanism that can be circumvented by anyone, then putting a gate at the end of the street to stop people getting back to their own houses that are now full of crack dealers because of the faulty locks...

Yep totally the same...




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