[swhipple]

They're both appeal to nature arguments. "Tobacco should never be regulated because it grows in nature" and "Cryptography should never be regulated because it uses math".

There are plenty of reasons to be anti-DRM or pro-user privacy, but the "it uses numbers" argument is not a particularly good one.

[WayneBro]

OK, just to be clear: the Wikipedia article does not state this argument or really represent in any way.

I'm just not sure who the criticism was directed towards.