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>why wouldn't they be able to read your mind and punish you for going to earth and making a crop circle then
ambiguous signals are less severe infractions than definitive ones. you don't execute people for minor offenses.

>you can't send a radio wave or a light beam, but you can get away with going to the surface and fucking with the local flora?
see above. It's very clearly a difference in severity. if you were to outright contact a civilization and breach the prime directive that is grounds for severe punishment. fucking up some plants in a funny way is far more ambiguous.

>where would those all powerful radio forbidding aliens even come from?
Either they exist and they are here or they don't. no in between. they have had plenty of time to find earth using their telescopes. Earth has been visibly habitable for over 2B years.

they would be aware of the signal because they were here when it was sent.