I think some companies just want to look for a reason to disqualify a candidate to make their decision process easier. If you have two roughly equal candidates,

I think some companies just want to look for a reason to disqualify a candidate to make their decision process easier. If you have two roughly equal candidates, pick the one whose side project did NOT violate some random company’s TOS. I kind of get it. It’s incredibly lazy and arguably just as unethical as violating some random company’s TOS, but I get it.