Comment by int_19h

We know that the people who are making those decisions, the ones at the very top, are incompetent at best, and malicious at worst.

Given that, I would argue that unregulated dissemination is, on the whole, the more responsible choice out of those that we actually have. It's not that it doesn't have downsides, but other options have far more.

If and when humanity manages to come up with a system where the people in charge can actually be trusted to act in the common good, we can revisit this matter.