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Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by realreal89 on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:52PM (#42927133)
Oh good, so it's just a tool to selectively and arbitrarily make examples of people. I'm sure the government would never abuse that power. Carry on, then, citizen.
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Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by 2030ai on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:55PM (#42927696)
In addition big AI are swinging their clubs with Trump so this is a good way to jail the competition.
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Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by tptacek on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:03PM (#42927762)
You are both talking as if this could possibly pass, and it cannot.
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Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by 2030ai on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:23AM (#42928377)
We are replying to the "the alternate universe where this passed" comment.
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Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by Cycl0ps on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:39AM (#42933752)
We've lived through a number of "That could never happen, though" scenarios in the past decade. I'm feeling a bit skeptical towards skepticism at the moment.
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