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A comment on “A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure to Stop Harassment. Parent comment

Re:“A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failu... by scott_s on Thursday August 11, 2016 @02:53PM (#12270732)
I think you ignored breischl's point, which was about context mattering. That is, you can't treat the claim as a logical proposition alone in the universe.
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Re:“A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failu... by yummyfajitas on Thursday August 11, 2016 @02:56PM (#12270760)
I'm not disputing that context can provide information about an action, I'm disputing the need to use circular reasoning/appeals to emotion rather than clear objective principles.
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