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alkindiffie • today at 5:56 AM • 8 replies • view on HN

So in France you will not be able to send your friend gibberish text that only you and your friend understand. Will they also ban the ability to make new languages that only you and your friends understand. Will they also ban whispering?

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kivle • today at 7:47 AM

Or will they ban you from using something like https://github.com/filosottile/age to encrypt and armor text encode things you send inside of the non-encrypted chat?

echo "Am I doing something illegal, France?" | age -e -r age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p -a -

  -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
  YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSBjTVQ5VTdMaTlnRkEyT1BY
  MHZPc0lncHFvbS9FMTlDa2FkK3JQZy9sQnprClRFN3lNQUtnNzJWK0RxQVlYNE1q
  NCtlNFJTUWpwZExJSDMvSGlRL2VHc1EKLS0tIC95bEErRU9NNERJRVVuYlMwUFg4
  WUx1R0IyTHd1d2dxQTdqU0NJWlF0MXMKL1x9fz+ZVObYrn3bY/IdVBsd4KYxn78P
  aWePVjaRUityGTkndNSy6gg1meVky22iv4rxd9MZ4XYnsGJDfRUmkVZhQcCxag==
  -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
tonis2 • today at 6:07 AM

Yes, to protect the children ofcourse.

baranul • today at 7:07 AM

Well, if it is some gibberish between you and friends the state doesn't understand, they will have you silently and continually investigated by a pre-crime unit. You and your friends could be committing "thought-crime".

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euroderf • today at 7:15 AM

When Loglan & Lojban are outlawed, only outlaws will use Loglan & Lojban. And Klingon.

trolleski • today at 6:45 AM

But how can they be SURE that you are not a terrorist? Neuralink is the only option!

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phyzix5761 • today at 7:10 AM

They've already banned religious and cultural freedom so why not?