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Originally Posted by John F
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quoting things out of context does not prove an ad hominem attack. His response to my discussion of legal issues was simply "he's an Apple shill", with no discussion of the actual legal issue that was being discussed. That's the definition of ad homiem attack.
I was commenting on the question of "what am I missing" and my reply went into considerable depth as to why I thought that Amazon was dropping such companies from their affiliate program (yea, you dropped the other two paragraphs of my comment from you quote).
ad hominem is defined as -
"1.
(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining."
My full comment (including the much larger part you edited out) was about why I thought Amazon was doing what they were doing. If I had simply said that for some people, Amazon can do no wrong and that was it, it would have been ad hominem since I was simply discussing the person rather than the position.