This comment breaks the site guidelines, which ask: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

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The comparison works because it's an argument against reductionism, not an argument for or against "sharing a small piece of data" which is very similar to insider trading, or child pornography (after all, it's just a sequence of one's and zeros right?).

The point here is that saying "it's ok, it's data" isn't itself a good argument because it relies on reductionism or consideration of the effects of sharing the information. You could say you don't care about the effects, but it is invalid to deny their existence.

For the record, I'm anti-copyright and anti-patents.

For the purpose of analogy, the comment aligns "moving through the room with my knife extended" with sharing a small piece of data; "murder" with whatever the deliberate import was of sharing that small piece of data. In no case is it saying any pair of things are the same thing or equally bad (except the two patterns of reasoning).

I am not, and the fact that you accuse me of that proves your malignant intentions.

And maybe learn what "to equivocate" means.