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In a hypothetical alternate world in which individuals / organizations were publishing the raw Panama Papers? Yes, I would think their accounts should get banned.

Fortunately, as with the Trump tax returns, the journalists handling the Panama Papers did not engage in such unscrupulous behavior.

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Pretty sure the NY Post did not post raw data dumps of the laptops. Though many people on the left were clamoring for them to dump all the data to enable the emails to be verified.

Also, many used the absence of raw data to cast doubt on the authenticity of the information released by the NY Post.

They published private pictures and screenshots of private emails.

And there are easy ways to establish authenticity without publishing raw data e.g. providing third party journalists with access to the data.

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