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In the US, attaching legislation like that to firearms instructions would doom its success. It sounds like a great idea to ratfuck a potential bill. No Republican would be able to pass a bill that bans local agents from helping citizens exercise their 2nd Amendment rights.

The politics are probably different in other countries. We're still seeing Chat Control efforts in the EU.

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https://xkcd.com/504/

> I think the crypto community took the wrong side in that fight. We should have lobbied to keep it counted as weaponry.

> Why?

> Once they get complacent, we break out the second amendment.

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Yeah. I suspect parent either is very optimistic or does not know how restricted current batch of language models are already or does not recognize that, while it may some time to completely neuter, they do have time.

It seems that powers that be learned something from the world wide web deployment.

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