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It is always very stupid when both sides try to argue whether or not regulating brand new technology falls under right or wrong based on legislation which was likely written decades ago. It is clearly a game of intepretation based on feelings.

Instead we need a system which actively recognizes and regulates new technology as it becomes available.

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It's silly to the point where I read someone defending our right to use cryptography under the second amendment. It should be part of it's own modern bill of rights or something so there is no ambiguity.

>> It's silly to the point where I read someone defending our right to use cryptography under the second amendment.

That's really stupid. It's as bad as when the government wanted to classify cryptographic algorithms as munitions. To make the argument I think it's best to fall back to a right to privacy under the 4th amendment, and to the fact that it's just math which anyone can do.

Especially with how hard people fought to make cryptography NOT a munition.

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