Sure. That’s kinda what the [[jewish name]] plugin tried to do. Given a reasonably liberal API I can think of ways to Trojan horse any ideological filter in. Which I think is a) good for pluralism b) already happening c) inevitable one way or the other
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Look at how easily tech platform stocks recovered after the bad press/congressional scrutiny cycle.
You seem to be assuming concerns and objections can shape tech evolution in proportion to the strength of the associated moral sentiment. Never been the case historically.
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You want to mitigate the threat you have to invent mechanisms not moral arguments that you think might restrain invention and/or drive regulation. The latter 2 are pretty weak as evolutionary pressures.
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It had to be near universal and even then very weak and often easily addressed with cosmetics (greenwashing in sustainability, report-abuse buttons...) takes fundamental new tech to really move the needle (in examples above, cheap solar, encryption)
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More broadly I have a strong aversion to using shaming and moralizing or marketing to achieve moral social engineering. Invariably goes bad. Any progress made that way crumbles under pressure and ends up in a worse state.
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