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by AnthonyMouse 3751 days ago
If you take a sculpture apart then it no longer conveys the same information.

The code cryptographers use to communicate ideas is the same code the computer can execute. Are you contending that the same information is speech sometimes but not other times? What if the thing you're going to do with the information hasn't even been decided yet at the time of dissemination?