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minus-square@passiveaggressivesonarlinkEnglish13•8 hours agonot back-dated so download away fellas (not sure if a law can apply on acts before it was a law)
minus-square@chiliedogglinkEnglish17•7 hours 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@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-25 hours agoThey also can’t amend the constitution via executive order or deport US citizens, but watch them try it anyway
minus-square@chiliedogglinkEnglish3•5 hours agoThat order lasted about 10 minutes before a judge appointed by Ronald Fucking Reagan.
minus-squareCyrus DraegurlinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-27 hours 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@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 hours agoNot sure about the laws wording, but if it is open source just create a branch with a different name.
minus-square@shortrounddevlinkEnglish9•8 hours 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
That order lasted about 10 minutes before a judge appointed by Ronald Fucking Reagan.
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.
Not sure about the laws wording, but if it is open source just create a branch with a different name.
In principle: no. But Americans no longer have any principles (or never did in the first place)