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"For example, many people think WP Engine is “WordPress Engine”"

Remember he only just now updated that policy to say that, and tried to make it retroactive.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt Scroll down or search to "But Matt wasn’t done."


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Brian_K_White10/01/2024

Oh look, it's not the first time they accused people of violating terms that did not exist, and then updated the terms after the fact. And in this case the sites were doing nothing wrong even by the updated terms anyway.

https://adland.tv/wordpress-shuts-down-several-feminist-blog...

2018 is a long time ago, and an honest mistake false positive once in a while is no crime, but I still don't see any excuse for the lack of integrity to do something like modify terms after the fact and yet still try to apply them retroactively.

That's not an accident or a mistake. It is dishonest, deliberate, and part of a consistent pattern with today.