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It is truly criminal that such a bright and brilliant model of ethics, Amazon, should endure such an attack.




Unethical behavior does not become good just because it happens to hurt "bad people" (or more accurately, companies bought by bad people).

Using a sword to stab someone is evil, therefore, stabbing someone who is stabbing me with a sword is evil?

Another factor is that Amazon is big enough that crawling a minor website under their umbrella for a noncommercial project is unlikely to notably affect them.

Stabbing people with swords is evil, unless they are so big that to them it's at worst a light poke with a fork




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