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The strawman was > You can't just magically say, "I'm a not a thing at all, you can't regulate me!"

Sounds like "free of all regulation" to me.

Maybe you didn't mean "all regulation", but then in addition to confusingly saying it wasn't a strawman you really flubbed the wording on "the claim that someone can merely opt out of regulation" by not making that distinction clear.




> The strawman was > You can't just magically say, "I'm a not a thing at all, you can't regulate me!" > > Sounds like "free of all regulation" to me.

Yes, if you cut away the express context of this person declining the specific things the SEC already said, it does start to sound different.

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> you really flubbed the wording

You're welcome to believe that. I didn't ask.

I see that after learning that you criticized someone for something they didn't say, your preference is to pursue further criticism.

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> by not making that distinction clear.

Literally all I had to do was repeat it.

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Have a good day.




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