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The author of the article phrased it like this: " Once caught in the act, Trump's Group scrambled and took the site down." I think that implies malicious inten
by kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
The author of the article phrased it like this: " Once caught in the act, Trump's Group scrambled and took the site down."
I think that implies malicious intent ("caught in the act" - you "catch" criminals).
- bink 5y agoThere was a lot else going on at the same time. There were users creating parody accounts for famous politicians and the site was only intended for testing. I think they would've taken it down regardless of the license issue.
- woodruffw 5y agoI don't know. It feels like a factual claim (they were, in fact, caught violating the AGPL) mixed with a pretty standard English idiom. I can see a much more positive reading of that sentence: that the TRUTH engineers rushed to correct their AGPL violation by turning off the service. But that would be just as much of an unjustified interpretation.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoYou mean malicious intent by the author of the article to present the rather mundane situation as a nefarious crime and paint a picture of an evil wrongdoing by a group of obvious scumbags? The language certainly suggests that.
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoYes - but I was replying to the claim that nobody accused them of malicious intent. Imo the author of the article tries to frame the actions of the Trump team as malicious.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoYes, exactly, and framing the story like that is malicious.