Posted: Mar 22, 2018 6:00 pm
purplerat wrote:
I'll just say fair enough and leave it at that as going down the analogy rabbit hole is just about always fruitless.
Rather I'd just go back to the fundamental question of whether a record of illegal activity (i.e. data) should itself be illegal? If so, for what purpose?
There's plenty of reasons for data to be illegal. To prevent distribution of child abuse images for one. Privacy rights, data protection so organisations can't use personal data about you against you. To make it difficult to learn how to make home-made bombs. But I don't expect you to be persuaded by these since you've already stated that the first one doesn't concern you.