• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    21 hours 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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      20 hours 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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        20 hours ago

        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.