The FBI doesn't come busting down your door for pirating a few movies (I'm sure someone will find a news article with this happening).

They will after a few incidents where unguardrailed local models are used to hack and stop the water supply.

ThePirateBay is tolerated. Market places where drugs/guns are sold are not, they are all infiltrated and shut down after a while.

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KerrAvon 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>They will after a few incidents where unguardrailed local models are used to hack and stop the water supply.

This is irrational AI fearmongering. Please read https://sharptext.net/2026/some-of-all-fears/

> Market places where drugs/guns are sold are not, they are all infiltrated and shut down after a while.

might want to look up "gun show loophole"

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aftbit 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>might want to look up "gun show loophole"

I've never understood this. There is no "gun show loophole" anymore, if there ever was. Some states have two different standards required things like background checks and identification for gun sales between private party sales and dealer sales. If a dealer goes to a gun show, they have to background check their buyers just like anywhere else. Similarly, if a private party (in a state where they're not required to background check) sells a gun on Craigslist, they're equally unrequired to background check.

Many states, including most of the "anti-gun" states, have moved to requiring background checks from all sellers, including person-to-person transfers and even gifts from family.

The "gun show loophole" is massively overblown. There's nothing special about gun shows in it.

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yandie 3 hours ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_background_check#Sta...

22 states only - are you sure that “most states” have blocked this?

	▲	frumplestlatz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That counts as many states, and most of the "anti-gun" states, which is what the parent actually said. Personally, I think people should be as free as possible to sell goods privately without the government getting involved. It's not a loophole, it's how things should work. If you think any of these laws prevent felons and other prohibited persons from getting guns, you must be remarkably unfamiliar with felons, and their willingness to commit felonies. Most felons I know through friends/family have a gun (often stored somewhere plausibly deniable), and it's not a particular secret. These laws primarily harm law-abiding citizens — who were never the problem in the first place — far more than they restrict prohibited persons from acquiring guns. The same thing will occur with restrictions on open models, but arguably the results are far more harmful — limiting the technological and economic capacity of the people and countries we have to worry about the least, leaving the playing field open for those we have to worry about the most.

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dist-epoch 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> This is irrational AI fearmongering.

I said AFTER. If it doesn't happen, the local models will not be made illegal. So if you are right, you have nothing to fear.

	▲	mitxela 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		After nginx blows up a city, it'll be illegal to run or have a copy of nginx. "But nginx won't blow up a city..." Relax. If it doesn't happen, your nginx is safe.