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baaksies on Oct 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Illegal Numbers

Numbers corresponding to obscenity depends entirely on the software that interprets and renders them, doesn't it? If I write software that translates the number 5 into obscenity, would 5 become illegal?

Evbn on Oct 29, 2012 [–]

Not entirely, partially. If you could come up with an actual example, you may have a point.

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