I understand that synthetic shorts exist, I was speaking in the hypothetical that the SEC decides "no more short selling, period." If there was a rule against

I understand that synthetic shorts exist, I was speaking in the hypothetical that the SEC decides "no more short selling, period." If there was a rule against short selling, I imagine that synthetic shorts would also have those rules applied to them unless there are enough differences to qualify them as "not short selling". Though I guess the uptick rule already doesn't apply, so they're already seen as different in some sense?