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Governments outlawing numbers, that'll be the day.

• em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
  Governments outlawing of numbers has been going on for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
  • oreo81 9y ago
    All those of those are examples of numbers that have already been discovered, not preemptively banning numbers yet to be found.
    • em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
      They still pre-emptively ban numbers, for instance if they represent something illegal: "Any image file or an executable program can be regarded as simply a very large binary number. In certain jurisdictions, there are images that are illegal to possess, due to obscenity or secrecy/classified status, so the corresponding numbers could be illegal." Also, the concept of "numbers yet to be found" is philosophically questionable.
• gspetr 9y ago
  In 2017, far-right Slovak politician Marian Kotleba was criminally charged for donating 1,488 euro to a charity.