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marshraytoday at 5:39 AM1 replyview on HN

We're discussing a blog post about a blatantly plagiarized website, and the ethical environment and professional choices that led to its creation and continued existence. We get to do that.

This isn't Reddit and we aren't "the internet". We aren't brigading and organizing harassment or whatever here.

That is why the particulars of the web designer's personal life and state of mind are mostly uninteresting.


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scotty79today at 7:09 AM

> We get to do that.

We get to discuss anything that doesn't get moderated.

> This isn't Reddit and we aren't "the internet".

It's a reddit for techno snobs and we are the internet as much as any other part of the internet.

> That is why the particulars of the web designer's personal life and state of mind are mostly uninteresting.

Depends on the perspective. IP law and it's fake aspirations for a morality that's voluntarily mob supported by a small but very vocal group of people is what's interesting for me. And who's being ground by it also kind of matters more than what imagined offences agains the letter of the "law" they commited to trigger that.