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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Stonetools didn't do that. I did. I did it to point out the ridiculousness of conflating online piracy and online counterfeit drug sales. It made no sense to lump those together in a poll anymore than it made sense for me to lump piracy and pedophile stalkers together. Being ridiculous and laughable was the whole point.
I don't agree with stonetools on issues of this sort most of the time, but I still respect him(?), and don't want to see my words being used against/attributed to him. He never mentioned pedophilia.
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Fair enough. I'm guilty of attributing your additions to the original poll. However while conflating online piracy and counterfeit drugs is less offensive than including pedophile stalking in the argument, it's still flawed methodology and its use to support legislation like SOPA/PIPA when the drug component probably had a far greater resonance with its respondents is still something I find offensive. What do you think the relative proportion of respondents worried about getting bad drugs is compared to those worried about someone downloading an mp3?
I also find the methodology of relying on cold calling people and asking them to tell complete strangers if they have ever indulged in activities for which they could be prosecuted unlikely to provide accurate results. Although he(?) obviously feels differently. He's entitled to his opinion, both of the poll and me, and I'm entitled to mine.