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Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek

chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Ex post facto laws are expressly prohibited in Article I, so they can’t pass a law criminalizing downloads from before the law was passed.

They can, however, criminalize possessing a copy of DeepSeek. In that case you’d be legally required to delete it after the law passed.

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Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not sure about the laws wording, but if it is open source just create a branch with a different name.

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- nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I have seekdeep, nothing at all like DeepSeek
  
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starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They also can’t amend the constitution via executive order or report US citizens, but watch them try it anyway

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- chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That order lasted about 10 minutes before a judge appointed by Ronald Fucking Reagan.
  
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- Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  “they can’t do that, that’s illegal!”
  
  Shame the law doesn’t mean Jack Fucking Shit now.
  
  The law is whatever they want it to be at any moment.
  
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