• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    Wow, bold choice to ban the import of technology and knowledge. Usually governments are worried about export, so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

    Btw, how is the Nvidia stock price doing?

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      Right? Like, seriously, we all know somebody is just butthurt because their stock options tanked.

      Oh, wait, I’m sorry! That was very unpatriotic of me, wasn’t it? I mean, we all know that winning an election guarantees being heavily rewarded with insider trading, right? It’s not like they’re there to represent constituents or anything; I mean, doesn’t everyone know we’re a republic, not a democracy?!

      Sigh…

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      To be fair, this is common practice. Countries do this all the time to protect their economies. Mostly known in the West is China which banned many US services.

      Of course, security of the data of the citizens is also a factor. You don’t want foreign countries use this data to interfere in any way.

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        Honestly, I don’t think this is common practice in non-oppressive countries. I mean sure, this happens in North Korea, Iran, China… But I’m relatively free to consume what I want with a few minor exceptions. For example we don’t import food that isn’t food-safe by our standards. Regardless if it’s common practice to eat it in other places. Also food may not be able to enter the country due to laws on animal cruelty. Similar things apply to electronic devices that aren’t up to code. And some select few things are banned altogether and you can’t have them and neither can someone import them. Other than that, regulations aren’t super strict. I can use all American social media platforms despite them stealing my personal data and violating European privacy laws regularly, can use Russian or Chinese websites… I think I live in a free country.

        Helping domestic economy is done with tariffs / import tax. And not by banning things and putting people in jail.

        And mind that this isn’t about the service that collects your data and gives it to the Chinese government. This is about downloading the model file and using it all by yourself. So no data gets transferred to a foreign country. And it’s not because people could get harmed or anything. This is just because the vice president doesn’t want it personally. Like in some dictatorship. Otherwise they would have banned transferring data into foreign countries, if that’s what it’s about. But they didn’t do that, because it’s not about protecting the people.

        Or did I miss something and there are other examples for limitations on import?

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    Fascist regime and power/police abuse has started.

    P.S.: It seems like the US is becoming similar to Russia, kleptocratic country and organised crime in government.

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    Hawley’s statement called DeepSeek “a data-harvesting, low-cost AI model that sparked international concern and sent American technology stocks plummeting.”

    data-harvesting

    ???

    It runs offline… using open-source software that provably does not collect or transmit any data…

    It is low-cost and out-competes American technology, though, true

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    This is astounding.

    I mean, not the Deepseek or jailing stuff. I mean a Senator actually proposing a law. I thought the way our government worked was, the annoying orange declares a vague uncited threat to be bad, and signs an executive order on it!

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      No, we also allow mega corporations to submit bills that get rubber stamped by a rep somewhere. I don’t think a corporation would be so audacious as to submit this, so it’s a rare case of original content.

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    That’s awesome! I didn’t know you could download an LLM and run it locally! That’s what I’m really interested in is something that’s on my side and not a conduit to Google, MS or other.

    I’m so glad Hawley proposed this bill or I wouldn’t have known that deepseek was open source and downloadable! I’ll have to go look for a download.

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    Download the model and run locally is the most secure and privacy friendly way to use it.

    It’s absurd how little they know about what they are doing.

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    God, I hate Hawley. He’s an embarrassment to my state.

    He doesn’t even live in Missouri.

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    So I guess it’s free speech as long as you agree with the goverment’s speech. If not, then it’s a crime.

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      Elon Musk was just posting a factory of prisoners all working for cents on the dollar saying that America needs more of that.

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      Always have been, and this is a bipartisan value, heck, it’s common to all political parties of the world.

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        Yeah that’s called being a sovereign… They will respect each other doing since it is a club in a oligarchy or “democracy” but little people need watch that mother fucking mouth, or daddy gonna issue some backhand