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Civil and criminal law was never designed in such a way to be implemented by a brain of the world..., ok I take that back, A 'brain of the world, if it knew where you were could possibly tell you that the information is restricted and give you a "I can't do that dave message" based on your location.

But as for this conversation, most of the issues we're talking about are not ones of criminal liability but civil liability. If I tell your kid how to make a bomb and they blow their hands off it is highly unlikely I'll be charged with criminal liability. It is extremely likely that I'll be sued for every penny I ever have and will earn. Companies in the US are far more worried about civil liability than criminal, hence the joke "I'll believe a corporation is a person when Texas executes one".



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