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That's why I emphasized the "also"; one thing is a tool whose primary purpose is not to harm people but can be misused to do so, and a whole different thing is something which can only be used to hurt people or restrict their liberties.

"I'm not saying Onionshare is good or bad, just that you need to step back at look at any tool and consider the net potential impact if bad actors are able to exploit it."

True, and that's why we must think very carefully before enacting laws that make this or that tool illegal just because some criminal found a destructive use for it; there are so many things potentially dangerous in the wrong hands that blindly banning them all would either be impossible or would bring us back to stone age.



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