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diminoten on May 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Canadian anti-piracy outfit pirates photos for its...

There is nothing meaningful in calling a person hypocritical. It has literally no impact on the validity of their claims.

dspillett on May 16, 2013 | [–]

Their current claims, no. But it calls into question the validity of their previous actions which they are now contradicting.

I'm not commenting on which of the two situations is right (perhaps neither is), if railing against the "one rule for you, one rule for us" thing.

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