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		givinguflac on Nov 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Figh... It’s a pubic forum. If someone decides to be a shady scam artist, people have a right to point that out regardless of the thread context. I’d sure agree that Satan is allowed to comment, but other commenters are certainly allowed to point out that the freaking devil showed up.

balfirevic on Nov 16, 2019 [–]

It’s a public forum with particular guidelines. Personal attacks that have nothing to do with the topic at hand are very explicitly against those guidelines.

givinguflac on Nov 26, 2019 | [–]

Statements of fact about a person's previous behavior and actions are not personal attacks.

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