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Proposed bill to make it a crime to download DeepSeek in the US (www.congress.gov)

submitted 2 days ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 2 days ago (11 children)

They're gonna have a hard time making it illegal to download a completely open source software lol

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do not tempt them to outlaw open source.

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The most they could do is try to arbitrarily make the licenses null and void, but there's no functional way to outlaw making code publicly available without also outlawing the entirety of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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