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		Hackbraten on Aug 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sending spammers to password purgatory They’re still people though. Is punishing spammers for what they’ve done a helpful thing to do? Sure. Are spammers deserving of having their whole digital lives compromised? I don’t know.

ImPostingOnHN on Aug 4, 2022 | [–]

"they're still people", indeed I hope so, or else either the animals or the machines are spamming us on their own somehow ;)

they're still spammers, though, and yeah, I totally think they deserve this

oneoff786 on Aug 4, 2022 | [–]

> Are spammers deserving of having their whole digital lives compromised?

Yes

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