agree. the inventor does not get to decide or choose how his invention is used
I would also agree the internet has been a huge net positive.
I would also agree the internet has been a huge net positive.
I thought that not terribly long ago. I have to admit, though, that with every passing day I become less sure that it's really a net positive.
You determine whether something is a net positive or net negative by listing all of the negatives and positives and seeing how they balance out. With the internet, there are clearly both negatives and positives. The "evidence" either way is the full list of these factors.
Do they balance out in the positive or negative direction? The answer to that depends on how you weight the various factors, and I rather suspect that different people will weight the various factors differently. In other words, this is more a judgement call than some sort of hard objective truth regardless of whether you consider the net effect to be good or bad.
Of course, sometime things areactually bad, so that's to to say you're wrong. Just a good bias to keep in mind.
While the average internet user will just trust the sites and apps they use, there's nothing stopping those who are able from designing/building/using/sharing technology which they can reasonably trust. The building blocks are there (crypto / networking libraries etc.).
When open source software gets outlawed, I'll be worried.
And yet there are lots of ways road-builders can design roads so that they're safer.