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>The laws are outlawing some applications that make use of mathematics.

Stop equivocating. You're banning the mathematics. The mechanism is literally the mechanical implementation of the mathematics.

>Calling that outlawing mathematics is as absurd as saying that building codes that won't let me use asbestos insulation in new construction are banning sections of thermodynamics.

...Except that's not even an analogous comparison? The asbestos is forbidden not because it's too good an insulator/foiler of thermodynamics, but because of it's danger to the health of everyone.

Trying to ban applications that use encryption is exactly banning asbestos because it's too good an insulator, and you're interested in seeing whatever is wrapped in it burn.



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