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They're not misunderstanding it; you're deliberately using an inaccurate description to mislead people while trying to hide behind "technically not lying", and
by jodrellblank 5y ago
They're not misunderstanding it; you're deliberately using an inaccurate description to mislead people while trying to hide behind "technically not lying", and they're calling you out on it.
- zekrioca 5y agoAm I, though? Is Apple? Is parent's? It seems "their" (whoever you meant) interpretation of what does and doesn't constitute something is looser than my interpretation.
- zepto 5y agoYou said Apple was scanning the device. They aren’t. This is what you are being called out on.
- zekrioca 5y agoA-ha, so you meant that the device is scanning itself, and not Apple? Clever, very clever technicality.
- jodrellblank 5y agoWhat you're doing is changing "Two Americans run their homes on solar panels" into "American homes run on solar panels" with the intent of fudging the quantity so that readers assume it means most or all of them, while being able to argue "they are American homes, plural, so it's correct". "Device scans photos" and "Apple scans device" imply two very different things about how much is scanned, and you're using the latter because you know that if you describe it accurately readers won't be as panicked as you want them to be.
- zekrioca 5y agoSure buddy, that’s exactly my point, how would you figure? I do not miss the forest for the trees though.