Again, you are making a connection where there is none. Some totally different people condemned Prenda Law. And some other totally different people condemned the treatment of Bradley Manning. And even some other totally different people condemned Amanda Palmer. There are a lot of judgements being made on this forum. Making a connection between them to justify feeling outraged is sort of a silly endeavor.
And as far as ‘they’ knowing more that you do, that is also silly. There isn’t a ‘they’. You are seeing structure in the meta-arguments when none exists. There are just a lot of individuals stating their individual opinions. Honestly, you need to be aware that this style of argument borders on conspiracy theorizing. My recommendation is to take each thread as if it exists in a vacuum and respond to the points as if the arguers made them in good faith (unless proven otherwise).
