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There's a big difference between:

* one honest email

* thousands or millions, sent under false pretenses

There are two differences:

1) I'm allowed to cold call you. I'm not allowed to set up a robot to place millions of automated phone calls.

2) If I lie, I may have a problem. Someone runs up to your home and yells that your house is on fire, and you believe them. You jump out of a second-story window, breaking your windows and your legs. They do it in a stunt for TikTok. Who do you think is liable?

A third difference is IRBs. The right place to handle this are complaints to OMB; Princeton should lose federal funding here.




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