Hacker News Reader

You can't have it both ways. Police can easily hold someone as guilty of a crime for being in the same car as someone committing a crime. If you can be charged for that then a creator can be held complicit for any actions done using their software as intended.

View on HN

Within reason. I am no apologist for a lot of police misdeeds and dual standards, but whilst you _can_, often you won't, depending on context:

multiple high speed chases around where I live have resulted from police lighting a car up, and the driver failing to stop. Passengers in the car were "released on scene", because there was a recognition that they did not commit the failure to stop (and other associated offenses), nor could they safely extricate themselves from proximity.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com