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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by suifbwish on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:02PM (#27440752)
Actually that is what is known as a red herring argument. Bringing up something unrelated saying that the original argument is invalidated because the same reasoning wasn’t applied to it is a common informal fallacy. Most legal documents have something related to severability which states that even if one part of the document is found to be unreasonable/illegal/illogical, it does not invalidate the rest of the document.
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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by minsc__and__boo on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:34PM (#27443611)
That's not what a red herring is.

They're calling out the logical inconsistency of the claims being made, and in turn questioning the genuineness of the speaker's motive.

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