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Are we sure that we are comfortable sharing the actual leak on this website? If we are, fine, but that is a choice we are making.

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Why not?

It's illegally obtained information, sensitive information, about thousands of individuals and their personal businesses. I don't think its appropriate, and I would hate to be on that list right now.

Isn't this the exact argument search engines have been fighting for years in relation to piracy? The data hasn't been provided, a link to the data has been provided

Sure. Morally what do you think is the right thing to do?

Morally I wont be using any of the data. The data however is out whether you roadblock access to it or not.

The chances of you stopping someone who's nefarious enough to use the data but so non-technical that they can't find a magnet link is so low it wasn't worth me typing this sentence about it

It’s not about stopping anyone, and it doesn’t matter what are people are doing. It’s about making a choice about what we want to stand for and then acting on that. And that’s a choice.

You can't keep calling something a choice when people decide on the option you don't want

That’s up to the person posting it and there shouldn’t be a rule deciding either way for them.

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