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I would like to clarify my comment as some people has misinterpreted what I actually meant.

That said, you said some things in your response that make me think that the way I wrote my post may have lead you to misinterpret the point I was trying to make.

Why do people in this arena of conversation seem to consistently misinterpret the meaning of free speech?

I guess the formula for a mildly viral blog post is just to misinterpret a popular saying so you can disagree with it.

So here it is again, edited for the present context and updated with my recent thoughts:People do seem to misinterpret MPG ratings.

No matter how kind and understanding you are, many people on many sides will misinterpret your statements and demonize you.

In turn, the people who misinterpret that behavior take their cues from it, and turn it into actual aggressiveness, in sort-of a cultural game of telephone.

In practice, you actually shouldn't do that even with protobufs, because if you accidentally reuse that field number, you might misinterpret old data.

So Id like to address specific concerns weve heard from everyone"My understanding is that legal documents are written precisely to be as hard to misinterpret as possible.

Most people are used to a culture where niceties are important, and when they are put in front of a person that cares about results more than niceties, they can misinterpret that behavior for aggressiveness.

It wouldn't start with "Legal documents are easy to misinterpret", it would start with "It's no secret that lawyers will write contract terms as strongly in our favor as possible in a general cover-your-ass measure.

Because the reality is that with every email, telephone conversation, and internet search you ever commit to - you will pretty much always be censoring yourself in the back of your mind if the government may misinterpret what you are doing.

My favorite example of bias introduced to Wikipedia is by some obviously religious fanatics that managed to add the big section of "Religious views" to biographies of most of famous people of science, and then misinterpret their quotes to support the view that all were religious, in a sense of "supporting/believing in the existing religions.