I am not saying they are mutually exclusive.

I am saying that the focus of this article seems to be on blaming the victims instead of demanding accountability from providers of the tools making these scams possible. The article treats these tools as some inevitable background, part of the environment – but in fact creating them and making them publicly available is a choice and a business decision of for-profit corporations, making bank on scammers using them to scam people.

So while these approaches are not mutually exclusive, the focus is dreadfully misplaced. It’s like saying “You Need To Wear An Air Filter At All Times” instead of calling out the companies making the air unbreathable.

And that’s something I object to on a very basic level.