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I applaud PG for showing incredible constraint on this issue, on this board. It's like a father standing firm alongside his guilty son, while tomatoes are being thrown on them, while the cowardly son keeps mumbling lies 'It wasn't me, my friends did it. I just watched', while the father just stands there and takes it.

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Hey, I'd be fine too if someone was badmouthing my company which just took $100 million in investment :-)

Comes with the territory, I assume.

Well, these threads could've suffered mysterious deaths by now, but instead the other one has like 580 points :)

This the internet, I'm sure pg knows that would only make the situation 100x worse.

False premise. It's not as if by killing the thread the issue would have been capped altogether, no, it would have instead exploded and done exponentially more damage with accusations of censorship mixed in.

Cue the speech by Al Pacio's character in "Scent of a Woman", with PG as the father standing beside Philip Seymour Hoffman's guilty-looking character ...

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