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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) by brink on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:28AM (#22180805)
I think you mean contradiction, not paradox.
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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) by ramblerman on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:33AM (#22180868)
Not really. Both are correct, and paradox fits better in OPs context,

paradox: a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) by brink on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:41PM (#22185554)
A paradox is something that initially looks like a contradiction, but after closer inspection, is not.
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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) by foxx-boxx on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:33AM (#22180875)
Probably he or she was black listed on Facebook
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