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0 pointspowersnail2y ago0 comments

The point of the canary, is to turn any non-answer into a practical, or at least a tentative, "yes". If you no longer see an explicit "no", it means "yes".

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TheRealPomax2y ago

So the point of the canary is to turn a proper response into something that's flat out wrong? That seems incredibly counter-productive.

Dylan168072y ago

Wrong? What do you mean?

The difference between a canary and a "no comment" is that "no comment" is an extremely common thing to say whether an allegation is true or not so it's not very suspicious, while stopping a canary is very suspicious.

So it's like the scenario you outlined earlier, but more effective.

TheRealPomax2y ago

No, it isn't. It's pretending that "no comment" means something it doesn't. Just because you want it to mean "yes" doesn't mean it means that. It means "we are not going to comment on this, because we have a sane legal department and we're not going to give you any information one way or another".

If you think "no comment" means either yes or no, you're pretending to know something you don't, and you should absolutely stop and go "wait, why am I lying to myself? And why am I believing my own lie?"

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TheRealPomax2y ago

So the point of the canary is to turn a proper response into something that's flat out wrong? That seems incredibly counter-productive.

Dylan168072y ago

Wrong? What do you mean?

So it's like the scenario you outlined earlier, but more effective.

TheRealPomax2y ago

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