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A better analogy (not that I think car analogies map 1:1 to this) would be if the headline said "Ford has a nails-on-the-road problem". The headline implies way more ownership by the platform than is warranted and minimizes the actual problem, and it's tiring to see people try and pick things apart based on their worst possible uses.

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Also the underlying report is mostly about servers in Japan where the laws are different and/or that are blocked by almost everyone else because they are toxic. As they should be, because the whole point is that servers can block badly run servers elsewhere.

You're right: if somebody did a study and found that, among cars on the road, Fords were statistically more likely to have their tires punctured by nails, despite operating on the same roads as other cars, I'd definitely consider it worth writing about and thinking critically about.

That's what's happening here.

Glad you were able to find such a bad interpretation, I hope it sustains you

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