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Sorry, but it was really surprising to see such an account of events. Just in case it's not obvious, and I realize that not everybody had a chance to be confronted by a giant corporation legal department in their lives, this was a rather traumatic experience and the original comment looked like revisionist history to me.

But yes, sure, I should have just let it pass instead of getting riled by someone being wrong on the Internet...

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Honestly friend, when your own site was the original source, I think you’ve either got to change the site or accept that others will use it as a source. It’s not so much about us being ignorant as it is about us acting in good faith and trusting authoritative sources. When we can’t trust authoritative sources without being called out, the whole trust based nature of the web suffers.

I have a good sense of how traumatic that was. Hell, a previous bit of my hacktivism raised the ire of my city and lead to threats to throw one of my closest people in jail. So, I understand the feeling of trauma. If you ever need to talk about how trauma lingers, my email is on my profile. Please use it if you’d like to talk about shit with zero judgment.

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