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Comment by srmarm

4 years ago

You demo this tech working with child porn, it maybe shows it's worth with some Isis training videos but before long China will be demanding access on their terms as a condition of accessing their markets.

And at that point the well meaning privacy advocate who worked hard to get some nice policies to protect users is booted off the project because you can hardly tell the shareholders and investors who own the company that you're going to ignore $billions in revenue or let your rival get ahead because of some irrelevant political movement on the other side of the world.

It's happened plenty of times before and it'll happen again.