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3M Says No Evidence That Products Have Been Seized

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Re: 3M Says No Evidence That Products Have Been Seized

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Public Service Announcement for non-lawyers:

"I have no evidence X happened": "I did it and destroyed the evidence"

"I can't remember doing X": "I did it and can't destroy the evidence"

In other words: If you catch up to me with actual evidence, I'm proven not to lie (note that in several jurisdictions, lying might be illegal, especially as a witness).

There's nothing quite like corpspeak, just my favorite:

"I'm planning to have more time with my family": "The investors or my cofounder fired me"

Re: 3M Says No Evidence That Products Have Been Seized

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Public Service Announcement for non-lawyers: "I have no evidence X happened": "I did it and destroyed the evidence" "I can't remember doing X": "I did it and can't destroy the evidence" In other words: If you catch up to me with actual evidence, I'm proven not to lie (note that in several jurisdictions, lying might be illegal, especially as a witness). There's nothing quite like corpspeak, just my favorite: "I'm plan…

Yeah, the statement does sound like a blatant attempt at plausible deniability.

Re: 3M Says No Evidence That Products Have Been Seized

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Public Service Announcement for non-lawyers: "I have no evidence X happened": "I did it and destroyed the evidence" "I can't remember doing X": "I did it and can't destroy the evidence" In other words: If you catch up to me with actual evidence, I'm proven not to lie (note that in several jurisdictions, lying might be illegal, especially as a witness). There's nothing quite like corpspeak, just my favorite: "I'm plan…

I mean has there been any evidence? How could evidence of this even be covered up? The masks have to be somewhere. I mean 3M already criticised the US government for cutting mask exports so why would they suddenly lie and say they don't think anything has been seized? If anything I think they are trying to be diplomatic here by not directly saying that the whole thing isn't true.