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But that argument is flawed anyway; both the argumentum ad antiquitatem and argumentum ad novitatem are logical fallacies.

Ethics cannot be derived from argumentum ad antiquitatem or argumentum ad populum.

Premising your argument about government agencies all over the world is argumentum ad absurdum.

If you're going to use Argumentum ad populum then bad programming practices are better than good practices.

But everything in your post is either speculation or a fallacy called argumentum ad populum [1].

No offense, but you read like a living strawman for the argumentum ad auctoritatem fallacy.

The first paragraph is no more than a Argumentum Ad Hominem, while the rest is a lot of claims, with many interlinked articles, but no strong raw data to back most of it up.

I'm 99.9% positive argumentum understood your actual meaning and was merely making a play on words.

This is a vague argumentum ad hominem against a third party.

They are not totally an argumentum ad hominem, the moment TechRaptor began to commentate on journalistic integrity they opened themselves to comparison of their own journalistic integrity.

He the procuded to another falacy: Argumentum ad populum.

I can make a similar argumentum ad absurdum, but on the other side.

This is an example of the logical fallacy of "argumentum ad stultum", or "appeal to stupidty".

"Argumentum ad populum is a fallacy." Yes, but when choosing tech it can be a good dimension of analysis if paired with other variables.