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I could imagine a somewhat cynical science fiction story where Earth manages to communicate with an intelligent alien species using fundamental constants and rules of mathematics. But then, the aliens transmit a prime that the humans have happened to have declared illegal and have no choice but descend into interplanetary copyright war.

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Slightly more realistic would be a story about a technocratic nation that changed its flag to something like a "Free Speech Flag" (as mentioned in another comment) containing a representation of an illegal number, with the global media industry then conspiring to generate support amongst the public for regime change in that nation.

That's how you deal with trolls from countries with very strict language laws.

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