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I think that's actually kind of debatable. There are plenty of things that happen online that can, for example, expose kids to pedophiles, give channels for illegal and/or immoral activities, etc.

We are currently wrestling with questions that can be personal catastrophes due to the existence of personal tech, such as teens sexting each other and sending each other sexy photos and being charged with promoting child pornography or crap like that. If the phones and apps did not exist, they would probably be showing each other their bits in person instead and (in many cases) this would be perfectly legal. Get a phone involved, suddenly one or both of them can potentially go to jail.

But you just keep believing that software development is harmless, good clean fun. Yeah.




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