While it’s not the traditional blue vs. red politics, it seems very political to me.
Even when the debate is unlikely to have an effect on the dejure legality of blackmail it’s not certain that there aren’t practical consequences.
People generally don’t want other people to blackmail them and as a result they do have a stake in promoting social norms according to which blackmail should be shunned.
The debate was started by Hanson who’s a person who already advises projects that try to get around the law to enable people to make money with information that couldn’t be monetized previously.
While it’s not the traditional blue vs. red politics, it seems very political to me.
Even when the debate is unlikely to have an effect on the dejure legality of blackmail it’s not certain that there aren’t practical consequences.
People generally don’t want other people to blackmail them and as a result they do have a stake in promoting social norms according to which blackmail should be shunned.
The debate was started by Hanson who’s a person who already advises projects that try to get around the law to enable people to make money with information that couldn’t be monetized previously.