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Couldn't the wrong people take advantage of this and cause harm?

The "wrong people" can already cause harm. As Mark Twain said, "A lie travels round the world while the truth is still putting on its pants." Empowerment is for all people, and the good should outweigh the bad. If Empowerment turns out to cause more harm than good, we will of course reconsider. There will also be legally obligated restrictions on user behavior to comply with the law so that a few law breakers don't ruin things for the many law abiders.

Doesn't empowering everyone just feed the cycle of conflict?

"A common slogan is that "What you resist, persists." Truly spiritual people are never supposed to be confrontational or adversarial — that would be perpetuating an unevolved, "us-them" dualism. I don't know from what spiritual tradition the "what you resist, persists" slogan originated, but I often want to ask those who blithely repeat it, "What's your evidence?" When it is so patently obvious that what you don't resist persists like hell and spreads all over the place. In fact, good, strong, solid resistance may be the only thing that stands between us and hell. Hitler didn't persist because of the Resistance — he succeeded in taking over Germany and murdering millions because not enough people resisted."

—Starhawk 

Ignoring things doesn't make them go away.