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But you never 'cancel' a canary unless you foolishly set up an automated one: you update it or you don't. Someone telling me to 'not communicate' by actively lying (by updating the canary) is at least getting creative at language. Maybe that will be the outcome, I don't know. All kinds of crazy things are the law.

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You're missing the point though. The judge won't tell you not to lie. He'll tell you not to communicate a fact to people. If you already had a system to communicate that fact to people in a novel way, and you use it to do so, you have violated the judges order. It doesn't matter that you notified them by silence or whatever.

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