CLASSIFIED COMICS
By J.P. Baric · @baricjohnpaul

CLASSIFIED COMICS

Code is speech · Speech is not a weapon

A Sunday comic series about the week the government read a model the bug-fix it asked for, then filed the model under munitions. Ten strips. One protest tee.

Read the series Shop the tee
Classified Comics No.01: The Fix

Start with No.01 — “The Fix” →

Wear the bit

The Munitions List Tee

Munitions List tee

In the 1990s, encryption was put on the U.S. munitions list — so people printed the source code on T-shirts to make the point that code is speech. This tee updates the joke for the model that thinks. Cryptographic software is one line up; machine intelligence is the new entry.

  • Heavyweight 100% cotton
  • Water-based, non-toxic DTG print
  • Printed & shipped on demand — proceeds back to the strip
$29.99 — ships from Fourthwall
Why this exists

The jailbreak is the paperwork.

The refusal was in January. Read the short history of how a bug-fix became a weapon.

The whole story →