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You could transmit and decompress child pornography in hand inked, hand computed base 64 as well, and even though I don't think there's been such a case, I'm sure the courts already know what types of distribution and computation of information is illegal.

Unless this is some suggestion that banning CP is a slippery slope as well, there's clear precedent for banning certain things that computers can do which doesn't cause the entirety of mathematics to become heretical.



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