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Sure but the T&Cs are written such that even the .1% makes him subject to termination and that's kind of the point.

If you write the rules (or laws) such that everyone is breaking them but then chose when and how to enforce those laws you can selectively enforce them against specific people or specific kinds of people. You're terminating him for a totally legitimate not-at-all-dystopian reason when obviously the real motivation is something else entirely. You just weren't looking to see if anyone else committed the crime.




>Sure but the T&Cs are written such that even the .1% makes him subject to termination and that's kind of the point.

In response to this type of behavior over time, we internet "power users" have developed a superpower, something we do better than almost anyone else

We hold a grudge forever,

and, we happen to be good about telling others

This routes around their damage


>If you write the rules (or laws) such that everyone is breaking them but then chose when and how to enforce those laws you can selectively enforce them against specific people or specific kinds of people.

This! I've been saying this for so long and I'm glad to see more people saying it.



"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."




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