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In fairness, the person writing the article doesn't really have a say in the infra that the publisher is using. I agree that doesn't make the hypocrisy magically disappear, but it shouldn't detract from the points being made about the platforms we use to access the web.

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A team owner can advocate for safety related rules in a league while not having his own players adopt those changes and start losing.

Warren Buffet can advocate for changes in the tax laws that benefit the country while still playing hard by the existing rules.

Authors can advocate for changes to the web while their host is still doing the bad thing.

These can be seen as hypocrisy, but I think there is a large dose of honesty and in some cases humility in these situations.

True in theory but you also have to consider most writers are just freelance and therefore have zero pull with the publisher.

And many are just desperate to have a publisher at all.

So those are the least guilty of the examples I gave :-)

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