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And here is what you wrote:

He intentionally created a program to trawl through data which was explicitly marked by users as private.

And here's what you wrote earlier:

you'd specifically and intentionally create a program whose sole purpose was to analyze private user data and report on the results.

He did no such thing.

Perhaps, instead of directing all your energy into maximizing the feels you generate from being called on something, you could instead introspect and re-evaluate and consider that maybe you said something very wrong. People do that all the time. They do not ritually kill their accounts when that happens. The older, wiser ones are likely to just acknowledge it and apologize. Some of the somewhat younger, dumber ones, like me, have done that too.

We are both crudding the thread up now, so I'm going to stop posting about this.



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