• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        10 hours ago

        They also can’t amend the constitution via executive order or deport US citizens, but watch them try it anyway

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          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.

      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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        Not sure about the laws wording, but if it is open source just create a branch with a different name.