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by derangedHorse 9 hours ago
> would be akin to regulating uranium enrichment

No. Uranium enrichment is an active, physical process used to create a man-made substance of filtered uranium atoms. Weights are information that just knowing or reciting are being threatened. So one is a ban on the process and result of a process on physical resources, and the other would be a restriction on information and its form in all informational mediums.

A restriction of a scientific dataset that powers a large portion of the decentralizing power in open source research today. Without it, there would be hits to reproducibility, independent verification, and incremental research.