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If pedantry in the law has influenced your ethics that much, it's hard to call those "ethics".



Entity theory isn't pedantry. Knowing the difference between accusing a company and accusing an individual is quite important.

For a start, the company can be unequivocally identified, because they bought a block of IP addresses. The individual cannot, because the specific IP cannot identify an individual.

This isn't cognitive dissonance, and the massive distinction here is that a company is being held to account, not an employee.




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