[JumpCrisscross]

> illegal numbers in the USA land of the "free"

This is a silly take for anyone in tech. Any binary sequence is a number. Any information can be, for practical purposes, rendered in binary [1].

Getting worked up about restrictions on numbers works as a meme, for the masses, because it sounds silly, but is tantamount to technically arguing against privacy, confidentiality, the concept of national secrets, IP as a whole, et cetera.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_source_coding_th...

[fabianhjr]

Good thing that is part of the wikipedia entry:

> Any piece of digital information is representable as a number; consequently, if communicating a specific set of information is illegal in some way, then the number may be illegal as well.

[sheepdestroyer]

All those things are not self-evident and thus debatable

[JumpCrisscross]

> not self-evident and thus debatable

Totally agree. But prompting debate or even further thought isn’t the point of the meme.

[sheepdestroyer]

I'd argue that, as satire, it's the main point ;)

[JumpCrisscross]

> as satire, it's the main point

There is thought-stopping satire and thought-provoking satire. Much of it depends on the context. I’m not getting the latter from a “USA land of the ‘free’” comment.