numbers are speech, too.

[dsrtao]

Are these numbers significant? Are they a plea for sanity
in an insane world?

11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-z5-63-56-88-z0

which is very close, but not the same as a string that has appeared all over the net, although someone has replaced the Cs with Zs and forgot the initial oh-nine-eff-nine.

Are they even numbers, since they have letters in them?
Are they performative speech? Or are they a call to action?
Do they subvert the natural order of the world, or protect our liberties?

Is this is a poem, or is it political speech?

Comments

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

The poster's comment in this entry:
http://fortysevenbteg.livejournal.com/546985.html
is particularly amusing.

[jducoeur]

Hmm, nice observation. Indeed, that may be one of Digg's more interesting legal defenses: at this point, that string has *become* political speech, precisely due to the actions taken to suppress it.

Probably not as good as the "common carrier" argument, but it wouldn't surprise me to see it come up at the trial that I assume will probably happen...