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If you put it in the public domain it is your responsibility to ensure it is digestible by the audience you publish it to.

So yes... public posted information should be layman ready



Do you apply this reasoning to articles or comments discussing kernel development? Some topics have higher irreducible complexity than others.

More importantly, I can make whatever I want public, and I can do so with whatever audience I have in mind.


Interesting.

So inciting panic online is fine but not in a theater ?


Your remark finds difficulty in satisfying clear and present danger.


Vaccine studies


...are of a certain irreducible complexity which undergo a process of peer review prior to publication in scientific journals, and rightfully presume a minimum prerequisite background for proper interpretation? I'm sure the topic and its meta are interesting to the professional audience in which they were intended for.


Emphatically, no, it's not.

Putting something in the public domain allows other people with knowledge in the field to use the information. It doesn't mean that the lay-person should be able to digest it.

The public domain isn't some lowest common denominator clearing house of information, it's just public.




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