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Yes, but this will happen, regardless of legislation. The only thing legislation is able to achieve in this space is restrict the technology to actors that are not malicious to begin with.


Define malicious, because the people in power will surely have another definition.


Yes, this is actually a part of my point. There's no point in legislating it because all it will do is prevent an arbitrary class of people from using it, leaving it only in the hands of people who aren't interested in complying with legislation to begin with.

In other words, it will happen so the best thing we can do is acknowledge this and prepare for it.




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