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William Pitcock wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:28 -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote: They _claim_ they have learned their lesson and cleaned up their act. However, that does not erase the _years_ that they knew what was going on and happily took miscreants' money for polluting the commons. The police and courts are impotent, so it falls to the victims to take action. I hate lynch mobs as much as the next guy, but the law _does_ allow people to defend themselves and protect themselves from future harm by proven bad actors. They could be lying; we have no proof they're not, so given their track record, we must assume they are. What's to stop them from next week going back to the folks they've disconnected and taking their money again, again abusing the community. Even if they're not lying, application of the Death Penalty, as obviously justified in this case, is the _only_ way to discourage others from doing the same thing by instilling the fear of the same consequences. S
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