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Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by bduerst on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:21PM (#16644028)
>Whatabout McCarthyism?

What about the founder of Wikileaks working for Russian propaganda media, which is what we're discussing here? I'm not sure what your motivation to deflect on this is.

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Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by ionised on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:05AM (#16647843)
How is he deflecting?

He's talking about McCarthyism, which is very relevant to the subject at hand.

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Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by bduerst on Thursday March 22, 2018 @11:54AM (#16649677)
Because it's a false equivalency. Nobody is accusing Julian Assange of something that he isn't guilty of, and it's attempting to change the subject when faced with the facts.
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