If you dig a little deeper this looks extremely opportunistic on the part of NTL. It s got the slimey hands of investment bankers all over it.

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In addition, sites like Facebook have some obligation to filter out spammers, scammers, phishers and other slimey people who would use their access to the rest of us for abusive purposes.

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