@JOMusic@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoUS Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseekwww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up1821arrow-down116cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-square@passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish15•2 months agonot back-dated so download away fellas (not sure if a law can apply on acts before it was a law)
minus-square@chiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish20•2 months agoEx 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.
minus-square@starman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-22 months agoThey also can’t amend the constitution via executive order or deport US citizens, but watch them try it anyway
minus-squareCyrus DraegurlinkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-22 months agoYup. “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.
minus-square@chiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months agoThat order lasted about 10 minutes before a judge appointed by Ronald Fucking Reagan.
minus-square@Simulation6@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoNot sure about the laws wording, but if it is open source just create a branch with a different name.
minus-square@shortrounddev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 months agoIn principle: no. But Americans no longer have any principles (or never did in the first place)
not back-dated so download away fellas (not sure if a law can apply on acts before it was a law)
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.
They also can’t amend the constitution via executive order or deport US citizens, but watch them try it anyway
Yup.
“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.
That order lasted about 10 minutes before a judge appointed by Ronald Fucking Reagan.
Not sure about the laws wording, but if it is open source just create a branch with a different name.
I have seekdeep, nothing at all like DeepSeek
In principle: no. But Americans no longer have any principles (or never did in the first place)