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> Exactly, and that's the definition of a strawman.

No, it's not. A strawman is when you are asserting that someone is making an argument they aren't making, so that you can knock down that argument rather than what they are really postulating.

I am not doing that. I haven't asserted that Amazon was making any sort of privacy argument here. I am the one making the privacy argument.



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