Silence isn’t consent.
I don’t give a sh1t who says it is.
Well, you can take it up with God when you see him.
In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons (1960), Thomas More has refused to swear to the Act of Supremacy making Henry VIII Head of the Church of England. At his trial, Thomas Cromwell argues that everyone knows that his silence means denial. Thomas More quotes the maxim qui tacet consentire and translates it as "Silence gives consent"--pointing out that if they wish to construe his silence they must construe that he consented, not that he denied.
(The movie version is better known than the play.)