JOMusic@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoUS Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseekwww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1421arrow-down18
arrow-up1413arrow-down1external-linkUS Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseekwww.404media.coJOMusic@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squarepassiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agonot back-dated so download away fellas (not sure if a law can apply on acts before it was a law)
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month 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-squareshortrounddev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month 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.
In principle: no. But Americans no longer have any principles (or never did in the first place)