That doesn't sound like a free market to me.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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uh... no.
The Land of the free sure likes taking away freedoms and banning stuff
People there have chosen that by voting republican. I mean, he told what he planned to do and got voted for anyway..
Freedom, but only for rich, white douchebags
That's why I consider that tagline, 'The Land of the Free,' to be the failed punchline of a bad joke now. It hasn't meant anything since before Reagan took office at least.
I don't consider it valid so long as conscription exists, but now it's an utter joke
This would also effectively ban the use of any research produced by a Chinese national. Any papers which cite the work of Chinese labs (most of them) would be illegal, as this could be interpreted as aiding Chinese AI research.
China : Discovers Anti-gravity
USA : Law preventing study of anti-gravity
Good luck trying to ban OSS next, which would criminalize basically everyone who's ever used a browser that isn't IE, everyone who's ever used an Android phone or a Chromebook, everyone who's ever used any modern audio or video codec as the bulk of those are OSS too, and would destroy both Big Data and the Cloud, both of which are primarily Linux-based, and send the US back to the web's dark ages, as in going back to when BBSes were popular.
Also, since this bill punishes people by making them spend most of their lives in prison, how are they going to lock up everyone who’s ever used Chromium or Firefox browsers, for example, or everyone who’s ever used Android or ChromeOS, which is most of the country’s population at this point, should that ban extend to a general OSS ban? (this part was originally a reply but I moved it to the main post)
They're american, they'd just pick one rich guy to 'own' all Foss projects and make it freenium within a year
Good luck with that too, especially as GPL3 has a clause specifically forbidding tivoization built into it.
The type of thing RH is doing with the RHEL EULA in order to attempt to circumvent GPL2 protections? Yeah, that wouldn't fly under GPL3.
Til a judge 'interprets' that as being specifically about a company named TiVo or invalidates it in the supreme court.
Yk back in my day it was even unthinkable to have a president decide your gender for you, the precedent already being created is insane.
Criminalizing something broadly isn’t usually done with the intention of going after everyone who does it, it’s so when they do single out someone they can charge them even if they haven’t actually caught them doing anything wrong (besides the thing everybody does).
See also: the way laws about taxes and drugs are often enforced.
BuT tHe FrEe mArKeT
ngl them not wanting me to download it makes me want to download it more than anything else, and I'm usually against ai
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Ah yes, the "free market" in action.
We are rotten to the core.
Not me. It's the rest of you.
Awesome, so on top of all the other crap, like a economy that is going off a cliff, the US wants to actually get further behind on AI, just so that assman van make a few extra dollars
Time to start seeding DeepSeek R1 I guess.
The paste does not go back in the tube....
It can if you kind of squeeze the tube a little bit and then let it suck the paste back in. But it's really tedious.
They are afraid. Very afraid. Good.
Just try to stop me. Or anyone for that matter.
The "does it connect to the wifi" mfers came up with this one I'm sure.
Exactly.
We will just put Trump porn on the whitehouse.gov site to show you how little control America has over its digital economy.
Hey deepseek. Remake Lemon Party but with Trump, Vance, and Elon.
I thought software and thus code was protected as free speech?
Free speech and expression is one of the many previously-thought-to-be-inalienable rights that are in the current administration's crosshairs. If I could flee this country for, say, the Netherlands, I'd do so in a heartbeat, unfortunately I can't.
The Netherlands would be high on my list, too. What a pleasant place.
NJB's praise of their infrastructure would have me sold on them if I could actually flee the US.
NJB
Neil jeGrasse Byson?
Not Just Bikes.
The right to free speak can be compromised if it interferes with other, more important rights...
... like the right of shareholders to make money.
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