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it is unfortunate that some people believe those pros outweigh the punishment inflicted on innocent users

it is better a thousand criminals/ spammers go free than a single innocent non-spammer be treated as if they are one

essentially the companies are shifting their own pain (with spammers) onto innocent users ("it's your problem now, suck it users, lol!!!")

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> better a thousand criminals/ spammers go free than a single innocent non-spammer be treated as if they are one

Sounds like you never had to actually deal with such a spammer problem yourself

"its easier to just punish everybody than single out the person actually deserving of punishment" is actually a common defense of collective punishment

the equal and opposite response would be, "Sounds like you never had to actually deal with such a usability problem yourself", but I'm not interested in trying to devolve this discussion into one about you and me, instead of the topic

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