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Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by gruez on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:28PM (#42926224)
>The ranking member (senior Democrat) on the intelligence committee voted against the ban (https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/tiktok-ban-jim-h...):

But he voted yes on the subsequent vote?

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024145

Moreover your factoid is misleading because it omits the fact that the chair voted for the ban, along with most of the members. Of the 25 members on the committee, only 4 voted against.

Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by aragonite on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:35PM (#42926307)
He voted against the March bill that narrowly focuses on the TikTok issue, but voted for the April bill which also includes foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel. They are not the same bill.

> The decision by House Republicans to include TikTok as part of a larger foreign aid package, a priority for President Joe Biden with broad congressional support for Ukraine and Israel, fast-tracked the ban after an earlier version had stalled in the Senate. A standalone bill with a shorter, six-month selling deadline passed the House in March by an overwhelming bipartisan vote as both Democrats and Republicans voiced national security concerns about the app’s owner, the Chinese technology firm ByteDance Ltd. (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/possible-u-s-tiktok-ba...)

Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by orwin on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:45AM (#42929826)
Putting shit like that in an unrelated bill can be translated as a 'horseman bill' and would have been censored so fast in my country it isn't even funny. What does your supreme court do exactly?