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> where thief cannot report burglary

Written from the perspective that the most straightforward explanation is true:

Bad analogy. Nobody entered anyone else's business.

The defendant prefers that its users get good quality information, and the plaintiff's reputation for low quality information runs afoul of that practice.

Also, why would a thief report his own crime?



I don't think it's meant as an analogy, it's an idiom.

> Also, why would a thief report his own crime?

The thief isn't reporting their own crime, they are reporting that they have been robbed by someone else.


It's an idiom. It basically means that someone who committed a lesser, but similar crime wouldn't be able to report a crime themselves.


> The defendant prefers that its users get information that a) maximises the defendant's ad revenue and b) advances the defendant's preferred narratives.

FTFY




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