alt Hacker News> If you truly believe that bans don't work, the same applies to hardware too.
No, software and hardware are different. You can very plausibly prevent smuggling of physical objects, and you very obviously cannot prevent smuggling/diffusion of open source bits-on-disk.
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throwaw12 • today at 5:18 AM
> software and hardware are different
No, because both can be banned using laws and Dario is against banning. It doesn't matter if you smuggle or not, law can outright ban it.
Exactly, compare banning books to banning guns.